Challenges in body area networks for healthcare: The MAC

Athanassios Boulis; David Smith; Dino Miniutti; Lavy Libman; Yuriy Tselishchev

doi:10.1109/MCOM.2012.6194389

Challenges in body area networks for healthcare: The MAC

Athanassios Boulis^*, David Smith, Dino Miniutti, Lavy Libman, Yuriy Tselishchev

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Abstract

Body area wireless sensor networks (BANs) are a key component to the ubiquitous healthcare revolution and perhaps one of its most challenging elements from a communications standpoint. The unique characteristics of the wireless channel, coupled with the need for extreme energy efficiency in many healthcare applications, require novel solutions in medium access control protocols. We present the main characteristics and challenges associated with BANs from a healthcare perspective, and present some MAC techniques based on studies of the BAN channel that could be used to address these challenges.

Original language	English
Article number	6194389
Pages (from-to)	100-116
Number of pages	17
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume	50
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2012.6194389
Publication status	Published - 2012

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