Abstract

Body Area Networks (BANs) connect together nodes attached to a human body and transfer the data to an external infrastructure. The wireless communication channel and a variety of miniature sensor devices have lead to many useful applications of BANs, such as healthcare monitoring, military and emergency coordination, rescue services, sports, and entertainment. The Ultra Wide Band (UWB) communication model is widely used in wireless body area networks. UWB Radio Frequency (RF) technology provides robust and energy efficient transmission of data and signals through wireless networks. This chapter surveys recent models, applications and research challenges for future generation UWB RF technology for BANs. The chapter also discusses the state-of-the art in the cloud-based support for data storage and analysis in mobile health monitoring. Security issues for BANs in general and mobile health monitoring are addressed as a key aspect of the recent developments in the domain.

Highlights

  • Based on the IEEE 802.15 standards, Body Area Network (BAN) can be defined as “a communication standard optimized for low power devices and operation on, in or around the human body to serve a variety of applications including medical, consumer electronics/personal entertainment and others [5]”

  • The rules for MedRadio wing band are very strict and limiting [21]. These issues have provoked the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to think about opening up 2360–2400 MHz range for medical BANs. This is planned to hold up wideband entrenched micro-stimulator devices that can serve as an artificial nervous system to reinstate sensation, mobility, and function to paralyzed limbs and organs [66]

  • In [73], Takizawa et al have presented performance evaluation of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) wireless BANs, which shows that the modulation scheme has to pay much penalty if it uses a non-coherent receiver as compared to coherent detection

Read more

Summary

Introduction

Based on the IEEE 802.15 standards, Body Area Network (BAN) can be defined as “a communication standard optimized for low power devices and operation on, in or around the human body (but not limited to humans) to serve a variety of applications including medical, consumer electronics/personal entertainment and others [5]”. Technological advancements in ultra low-power Radio Frequency (RF) technology, low-power integrated circuits, energy harvesting and storage, and wireless communications have lead to the design of lightweight, intelligent, and low-cost medical devices and sensors. With all these achievements, the thought of widespread deployment of pervasive wireless BANs for diverse c The Author(s) 2019 J. It addresses the main challenges related to BANs and UWB-BANs and presents the recently developed models based on the cloud computing support for the patient’s health monitoring, patients’ data storage, analysis and processing with the security criterion for inter and intra-cloud communication and data access.

BAN’s Applications and Challenges
Applications of BANs
Candidate Wireless Technologies
Practical Challenges
Research Challenges
UWB Solutions for BANs
UWB Technology
UWB BAN System Model
UWB Transmitter Design for BANs
WBANs Antennas for UWB Frequencies
Using UWB for Transmission Channel Modeling in WBANs
UWB BAN Physical Layer
Optimal Locations for Sensors in UWB BANs
Cloud Support to Mobile e-Health Systems and WBANs
State-of-the Art
Security Challenges and Solutions
Findings
Conclusions and Future Directions
Full Text
Published version (Free)

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call