Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications: Protocol Stack Review
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) supporting healthcare applications are in early development stage but offer valuable contributions at monitoring, diagnostic, or therapeutic levels. They cover real-time medical information gathering obtained from different sensors with secure data communication a...
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| description | Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) supporting healthcare applications are in early development stage but offer valuable contributions at monitoring, diagnostic, or therapeutic levels. They cover real-time medical information gathering obtained from different sensors with secure data communication and low power consumption. As a consequence of the increasing interest in the application of this type of networks, several articles dealing with different aspects of such systems have been published recently. In this paper, we compile and compare technologies and protocols published in the most recent researches, seeking WBAN issues for medical monitoring purposes to select the most useful solutions for this area of networking. The most important features under consideration in our analysis include wireless communication protocols, frequency bands, data bandwidth, transmission distance, encryption, authentication methods, power consumption, and mobility. Our study demonstrates that some characteristics of surveyed protocols are very useful to medical appliances and patients in a WBAN domain. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9ea79f7c1d354f3fa16a3e756741664d2025-08-20T02:18:31ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772015-10-011110.1155/2015/213705213705Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications: Protocol Stack ReviewLuis Filipe0Florentino Fdez-Riverola1Nuno Costa2António Pereira3 Computer Science and Communications Research Centre, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering, University of Vigo, Polytechnic Building, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain INOV INESC INNOVATION, Institute of New Technologies of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal INOV INESC INNOVATION, Institute of New Technologies of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, PortugalWireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) supporting healthcare applications are in early development stage but offer valuable contributions at monitoring, diagnostic, or therapeutic levels. They cover real-time medical information gathering obtained from different sensors with secure data communication and low power consumption. As a consequence of the increasing interest in the application of this type of networks, several articles dealing with different aspects of such systems have been published recently. In this paper, we compile and compare technologies and protocols published in the most recent researches, seeking WBAN issues for medical monitoring purposes to select the most useful solutions for this area of networking. The most important features under consideration in our analysis include wireless communication protocols, frequency bands, data bandwidth, transmission distance, encryption, authentication methods, power consumption, and mobility. Our study demonstrates that some characteristics of surveyed protocols are very useful to medical appliances and patients in a WBAN domain.https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/213705 |
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| title | Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications: Protocol Stack Review |
| title_full | Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications: Protocol Stack Review |
| title_fullStr | Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications: Protocol Stack Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications: Protocol Stack Review |
| title_short | Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications: Protocol Stack Review |
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| url | https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/213705 |
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