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Health monitoring using WBAN: topology design, routing and thermal issues

Health monitoring using WBAN: topology design, routing and thermal issues

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The developments that shaped the twenty/twenty-first century with respect to wireless technologies have had a great influence on quality of life, where wireless body area networks (WBANs) - implantable sensor nodes, more specifically, have recently emerged as a successful initiative for monitoring health remotely, and thus a research challenge. Two concerns that need addressing here are heat dissipation which causes damage to surrounding tissues, and introduction of relay nodes to increase network lifetime, but on the other hand may cause health hazards. There arises a need to find an efficient network topology design to overcome the above-mentioned concerns. This chapter discusses in detail WBAN, its applications, related technologies, energy-aware topology design, efficient relay node placement methods and, last but not least, energy-efficient and thermal-aware routing techniques.

Chapter Contents:

  • Abstract
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.1.1 Applications
  • 12.1.2 WBAN wireless technologies
  • 12.1.3 WBAN infrastructure
  • 12.1.4 Energy efficiency
  • 12.1.5 Approaches to achieve energy efficiency
  • 12.1.5.1 Active/sleep mode
  • 12.1.5.2 Cognitive radio
  • 12.1.5.3 Directional antenna
  • 12.1.5.4 Energy harvesting
  • 12.1.5.5 High transmission speed
  • 12.2 Energy-aware topology design
  • 12.2.1 Optimization of relay nodes placement
  • 12.3 SAR analysis
  • 12.3.1 Using low transmission power level to reduce SAR
  • 12.3.2 Impact of frequency band on SAR values
  • 12.3.3 Impact of high SAR on human body
  • 12.4 Energy efficient and SAR-aware routing
  • 12.4.1 Energy-efficient routing
  • 12.4.1.1 Energy-efficient decision factors
  • 12.4.1.2 Energy-efficient routing
  • 12.4.2 SAR-aware routing
  • 12.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Biographies

Inspec keywords: prosthetics; biomedical equipment; network topology; body area networks; health hazards; patient monitoring

Other keywords: wireless technologies; efficient network topology; topology design; wireless body area networks; implantable sensor nodes; energy-aware topology design; efficient relay node placement methods; heat dissipation; health monitoring; WBAN

Subjects: Prosthetics and orthotics; Prosthetics and other practical applications; Radio links and equipment; Biomedical communication

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