Seamless Interworking Architecture for WBAN in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with QoS Guarantees

Khan, Pervez; Ullah, Niamat; Ullah, Sana; Kwak, Kyung Sup

doi:10.1007/s10916-011-9756-4

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“…Therefore, selforganization and self-maintenance and self-management should be supported. Providing quality of service is another issue that related to the WBANs, where service is the appropriate service depends on their application and the nature of transport sensitive data [60]. For instance, when the WBANs implemented to monitor and support the patient's health care status, the information must be transfer real-time.…”

Section: Wbans Design Challenges and Open Issuementioning

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A Review of State-of-the-Art on Wireless Body Area Networks

Yazdi¹,

Hosseinzadeh²,

Jabbehdari³

2017

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Abstract-During the last few years, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have emerged into many application domains, such as medicine, sport, entertainments, military, and monitoring. This emerging networking technology can be used for e-health monitoring. In this paper, we review the literature and investigate the challenges in the development architecture of WBANs. Then, we classified the challenges of WBANs that need to be addressed for their development. Moreover, we investigate the various diseases and healthcare systems and current state-ofthe-art of applications and mainly focus on the remote monitoring for elderly and chronically diseases patients. Finally, relevant research issues and future development are discussed.

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Section: Wbans Design Challenges and Open Issuementioning

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A Review of State-of-the-Art on Wireless Body Area Networks

Yazdi¹,

Hosseinzadeh²,

Jabbehdari³

2017

ijacsa

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“…QoS is another issue in WBANs communication that must be satisfied where best effort service is not acceptable given the sensitivity of their applications and the nature of the transported data [20,56,94]. For example, when WBAN is used to monitor a patient's health condition, information have to be delivered instantly.…”

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confidence: 99%

A survey of wireless technologies coexistence in WBAN: analysis and open research issues

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Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is the most convenient, cost-effective, accurate, and non-invasive technology for e-health monitoring. The performance of WBAN may be disturbed when coexisting with other wireless networks. Accordingly, this paper provides a comprehensive study and in-depth analysis of coexistence issues and interference mitigation solutions in WBAN technologies. A thorough survey of state-of-the art research in WBAN coexistence issues is conducted. The survey classified, discussed, and compared the studies according to the parameters used to analyze the coexistence problem. Solutions suggested by the studies are then classified according to the followed techniques and concomitant shortcomings are identified. Moreover, the coexistence problem in WBAN technologies is mathematically analyzed and formulas are derived for the probability of successful channel access for different wireless technologies with the coexistence of an interfering network. Finally, extensive simulations are conducted using OPNET with several real-life scenarios to evaluate the impact of coexistence interference on different WBAN technologies. In particular, three main WBAN wireless technologies are considered: IEEE 802.15.6, IEEE 802.15.4, and low-power WiFi. The mathematical analysis and the simulation results are discussed and the impact of interfering network on the different wireless technologies is compared and analyzed. The results show that an interfering network (e.g., standard WiFi) has an impact on the performance of WBAN and may disrupt its operation. In addition, using low-power WiFi for WBANs is investigated and proved to be a feasible option compared to other wireless technologies.

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“…One of the main concerns when supporting mobility in HMS is maintaining connectivity and quality of service (QoS) at a sufficient level meeting application requirements [12,29,41]. Furthermore, WHMS relying on wireless technologies, energy as well as cost are important criteria to be considered, where from one hand, the more energy consumption is optimized the more the monitoring sustainability and convenience of the user increase, while from another hand, cost-effectiveness allows such systems to be more affordable and accessible [12,40]. Besides, because of surrounding environment changing of a mobile user such as in term of network coverage, context awareness should be considered [31,41].…”

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“…Context-awareness decisional mechanism dealing with network coverage change by switching between points of attachment (PA). Handovers allow to maintain connectivity, maximize throughput and support QoS [12]. We talk about micro/macro mobility handovers whether the switching is between the same network domain PAs (keeping same IP address) or through different network domains PAs [29]; Horizontal/vertical handovers from another hand distinguish between transitions through homogeneous or heterogeneous network technologies [38].…”

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“…In [45], authors supported mobility within their proposed data collection system through cost effective communication by switching between available networks according to current region and using buffering with postponed transmissions in order to handle intermittent connectivity. Other studies and research works addressed and focused on some of the key mechanisms for mobility support such as handover [9,12], coexistence handling [13,14,15], intermittent connectivity handling [20] or localization [16]. However, to the best of our knowledge, none of these studies addressed mobility support from a perspective describing its design requirements and their correlation with user's context.…”

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A study of mobility support in wearable health monitoring systems: Design framework

Boulemtafes

Rachedi

Badache

2015

2015 IEEE/ACS 12th International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)

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The aim of this work is to investigate main techniques and technologies enabling user's mobility in wearable health monitoring systems. For this, design requirements for key enabling mechanisms are pointed out, and a number of conceptual and technological recommendations are presented. The whole is schematized and presented into the form of a design framework covering design layers and taking in consideration patient context constraints. This work aspires to bring a further contribution for the conception and possibly the evaluation of health monitoring systems with full support of mobility offering freedom to users while enhancing their life quality

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Seamless Interworking Architecture for WBAN in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with QoS Guarantees

Cited by 16 publications

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A Review of State-of-the-Art on Wireless Body Area Networks

A Review of State-of-the-Art on Wireless Body Area Networks

A survey of wireless technologies coexistence in WBAN: analysis and open research issues

A study of mobility support in wearable health monitoring systems: Design framework

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