Virtual Groups for Patient WBAN Monitoring in Medical Environments

Ivanov, Stepan; Foley, Christopher; Balasubramaniam, Sasitharan; Botvich, Dmitri

doi:10.1109/tbme.2012.2208110

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“…In [ 22 ], the authors address WBAN data monitoring challenges, allowing virtual groups to be formed between devices and patients, nurses and doctors to enable remote monitoring of WBAN data. A new metric, the quality of health monitoring, is also introduced to provide feedback on the quality of the data received.…”

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Towards Reliable and Energy-Efficient Incremental Cooperative Communication for Wireless Body Area Networks

Yousaf

Javaid

Qasim

et al. 2016

Sensors

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In this study, we analyse incremental cooperative communication for wireless body area networks (WBANs) with different numbers of relays. Energy efficiency (EE) and the packet error rate (PER) are investigated for different schemes. We propose a new cooperative communication scheme with three-stage relaying and compare it to existing schemes. Our proposed scheme provides reliable communication with less PER at the cost of surplus energy consumption. Analytical expressions for the EE of the proposed three-stage cooperative communication scheme are also derived, taking into account the effect of PER. Later on, the proposed three-stage incremental cooperation is implemented in a network layer protocol; enhanced incremental cooperative critical data transmission in emergencies for static WBANs (EInCo-CEStat). Extensive simulations are conducted to validate the proposed scheme. Results of incremental relay-based cooperative communication protocols are compared to two existing cooperative routing protocols: cooperative critical data transmission in emergencies for static WBANs (Co-CEStat) and InCo-CEStat. It is observed from the simulation results that incremental relay-based cooperation is more energy efficient than the existing conventional cooperation protocol, Co-CEStat. The results also reveal that EInCo-CEStat proves to be more reliable with less PER and higher throughput than both of the counterpart protocols. However, InCo-CEStat has less throughput with a greater stability period and network lifetime. Due to the availability of more redundant links, EInCo-CEStat achieves a reduced packet drop rate at the cost of increased energy consumption.

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Towards Reliable and Energy-Efficient Incremental Cooperative Communication for Wireless Body Area Networks

Yousaf

Javaid

Qasim

et al. 2016

Sensors

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“…The proposed scheme finds faults by analyzing the collected data from sensors and ensures correct diagnosis. Ivanov, Foley, Balasubramaniam, and Botvich (2012) form virtual groups between the devices of patients, nurses and doctors. These groups are formed and modified according to the requirements of patients and the availability of medical staff.…”

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Modeling mobility and psychological stress based human postural changes in wireless body area networks

Sandhu

Javaid²,

Jamil³

et al. 2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…Considering the eager demand of WBSNs in reality, a number of research institutions have conducted researches on the WBSNs system [3][4][5][6][7][8]. In 2004, [6], the Harvard University launched a system called CodeBlue for emergency care.…”

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LEPA: A Lightweight and Efficient Public Auditing Scheme for Cloud-Assisted Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Cui

Zhang

et al. 2017

Security and Communication Networks

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From smart watch to remote healthcare system, wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) play an important role in modern healthcare system. However, the weak capacity of devices has limited WBSNs development. Considering the huge processing and storage capacity of the cloud, it can be merged with WBSNs to make up for the deficiencies of weak capacity. Based on this consideration, the concept of cloud-assisted WBSNs has been proposed recently. In contrast to generic data, the data in cloud-assisted WBSNs will be used for providing medical diagnosis, so the integrity of data is very important because any modification will result in severe consequences such as misdiagnosis. The public auditing scheme could provide an efficient solution to check the data integrity remotely without downloading them. However, the traditional public auditing scheme for cloud cannot be used directly due to the high data density and weak processing capacity in WBSNs. So, in this paper, we proposed a lightweight and efficient public auditing scheme, LEPA, for cloud-assisted WBSNs. Compared with similar schemes, the WBSNs’ client only needs to do one symmetrical encryption with low computational cost in LEPA. Security proof shows that LEPA can resist two types of adversaries in random oracle model. The efficiency evaluation also shows that LEPA outperforms previous proposals.

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Virtual Groups for Patient WBAN Monitoring in Medical Environments

Cited by 54 publications

References 12 publications

Towards Reliable and Energy-Efficient Incremental Cooperative Communication for Wireless Body Area Networks

Towards Reliable and Energy-Efficient Incremental Cooperative Communication for Wireless Body Area Networks

Modeling mobility and psychological stress based human postural changes in wireless body area networks

LEPA: A Lightweight and Efficient Public Auditing Scheme for Cloud-Assisted Wireless Body Sensor Networks

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