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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"body area networks"”.
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Abstracting information on body area networks
… are needed as pervasive components in and on the body. They will tend for people’s need of self-monitoring and facilitate healthcare delivery. These components around a human body that communicate to sense and act in a coordinated fashion make a Body Area Network (BAN). In most cases, and in our …
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A Robust Power-Scalable Transmitter Architecture for Wireless Body Area Networks
In this dissertation, an RF transmitter is presented that uses closed-loop PLL- based BFSK modulation and is reconfigurable for both the MedRadio and 433 MHz ISM bands. A power efficient class-C amplifier is utilized and the design methodologies for designing a highly efficient and low-power …
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Reliable and Energy Efficient Network Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks
In a wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) various sensors are attached on clothing, on the body or are even implanted under the skin. The wireless nature of the network and the wide variety of sensors offers numerous new, practical and innovative applications. A motivating example can be found in the …
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Wireless Body Area Networks: Efficient Coexistence by Interference Management and Avoidance
… strategically in, on, or around, the human body. The integration of these sensors in the form of a network is called wireless body area networks (WBANs). One key application of WBANs is in health monitoring to transport mission-critical and delay-sensitive data. Thus, a reliable WBAN needs …
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Wireless Body Area Networks: Efficient Coexistence by Interference Management and Avoidance
… strategically in, on, or around, the human body. The integration of these sensors in the form of a network is called wireless body area networks (WBANs). One key application of WBANs is in health monitoring to transport mission-critical and delay-sensitive data. Thus, a reliable WBAN needs …
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Multi-channel ultra-low-power receiver architecture for body area networks
… A multi-channel ultra-low power OOK receiver for Body Area Networks (BANs) has been designed and tested. The receiver multiplexes three Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBARs) to provide three channels of frequency discrimination, while at the same time offering competitive sensitivity and superior …
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Low-Power RF Front-End Design for Wireless Body Area Networks
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have tremendous potential to benefit from wireless communication technology and are expected to make sweeping changes in the future human health care and medical fields. While the prospects for WBAN products are high, meeting required device performance with a …
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Energy saving and reliability of wireless body area networks for health applications
A Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) consists of several biological sensors. WBSN can be employed to monitor patients’ medical conditions. Energy consumption and reliability are critical issues in WBSNs, as the nodes that are placed near the sink node consume more energy. All biomedical packets …
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Architecture for ultra-low power multi-channel transmitters for Body Area Networks using RF resonators
Body Area Networks (BANs) are gaining prominence for their use in medical and sports monitoring. This thesis develops the specifications of a ultra-low power 2.4GHz transmitter for use in a Body Area Networks, taking advantage of the asymmetric energy constraints on the sensor node and the …
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Compact planar wearable ultra wideband antenna for on-body applications
The increasing growth in using body area networks (BANs), wireless personal area networks (WPANs), and medical sensors has given an interest in wearable antennas that are made for operation on the living bodies. Engineers have not stopped at creating a remarkable technology such as wearable …
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Energy conserving privacy enhancing algorithms for resource-constrained devices
… devices such as wireless sensor networks, body area networks, or smart phones collect confidential and sensitive information about their users. Traditional solutions to protect these data, such as encryption, consume a significant amount of resources to be viable. In this …
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Communication and energy delivery architectures for personal medical devices
… of magnitude more efficient than conventional body-area networks. For implantable applications, two separate systems are proposed that avoid reimplantation requirements. The first system extracts energy from the endocochlear potential, an electrochemical gradient found naturally within the …
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Energy-aware network coding circuit and system design
… to provide several advantages in communication networks in terms of throughput, data robustness and security. However, its applicability to networks with resource constrained nodes, like Body Area Networks (BANs), has been questioned due to its complexity requirements. Proposed NC …
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Minimax sampling for key agreement generation in body sensor networks
… of the research was to optimize memory usage in body sensor network (BSN) nodes during key agreement generation. In BSNs, it is important to secure communication between BSN nodes to ensure confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of the information. The BSN node is faced with resource …
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Body coupled communication : the channel and implementation
… is storing or transmitting acquired data. Body area networks (BAN) can alleviate power budgets by using low power transmitters to send data locally around the body to receivers that are on areas of the body that allow for larger form factors, like the wrist or the waist. Body coupled …
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A low power, reconfigurable fabric body area network for healthcare applications
Body Area Networks (BANs) are gaining prominence for their capability to revolutionize medical monitoring, diagnosis and treatment. This thesis describes a BAN that uses conductive fabrics (e-textiles) worn by the user to act as a power distribution and data communication network to sensors on the …
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Video-analysis inference automated ECG (VID-ECG): improving video-based heart rate detection and exposing security risks of ECG-based biometric authentication
… proposed to be used as a unique security key for body area networks (BANs) to authenticate individuals and protect privacy and network security. In this thesis we show how compo- nents of information on cardiac activity, heart rate and beat-to-beat heart pulse information can be extracted easily …
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Energy aware network coding in wireless networks
… reliable low-power wireless communication networks. We focus on the problem of energy aware network coding. In particular, we investigate practical energy efficient network code design for wireless body area networks (WBAN). We first consider converge-cast in a star-shaped topology, in …
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Performance characteristics on patch antenna with sar reduction using artificial magnetic conductor (amc) for wban applications
Great advances have been made in the area of wireless body area networks (WBANs) of improving wireless communication technology since the invention. These advances range in refining, size reduction and shape, gain improvement, more efficiency and combination of the requirements for applications …
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