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An In Depth Study of Body Area Sensor Networks: Design, Communication, and Future Directions
Lucky Patel1
Meenakshi Arora2
Rohini Sharma3
1P.G. Student, Department of CSE, Sat Kabir Institute of Technology and Management, Haryana, India. 2Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, Sat Kabir Institute of Technology and Management, Haryana, India. 3Assistant Professor, Department of computer science, GPGCW, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Published Online: May-June 2025
Pages: 124-129
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wireless body area sensor networks. Procedia Computer Science, 19, 224–231.
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Technology in Biomedicine, 14(1), 44–51.
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Area Sensor Networks." Journal of Medical Systems, 38, Article No. 36.
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microsensor networks." Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
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IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 3(4), 366–379.
Wireless Communications, 17(1), 80–88.
2. Neha Malik, Meenakshi Arora , Rohini Sharma, “A Deep Overview of Body Area Sensor Network Technologies,” International
Journal of Research Publication and Reviews, Vol (5), Issue (6), June (2024), Page – 4538-4542.
3. Ullah, S., Higgins, H., Braem, B., Latre, B., Blondia, C., & Kwak, K. S. (2012). A comprehensive survey of wireless body area
networks. Journal of Medical Systems, 36(3), 1065–1094.
4. Himanshu, Parvesh, Kirti Bhatia, and Rohini Sharma, “An Overview: Health Surveillance Using Wireless Body Area Network”,
Volume 12, Issue 6, June 2023, pp. 8369-8375.
5. IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks–Part 15.6: Wireless Body Area Networks. IEEE Std 802.15.6-2012, 1–271.
6. Anjali Rana, Kirt Bhatia, Rohini Sharma, “IIEPDR: Improved Information and Energy Proficient Data Relaying Routing Protocol
for Wireless Body Area Networks”, International Research Journal of Science Engineering and Technology, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2017,
pp. 4-11.
7. Rehman, S. U., Khan, P., & Memon, M. H. (2020). Energy-efficient techniques for WBANs: A survey. Sensors, 20(18), 4881.
8. Anjali Rana, Kirt Bhatia, Rohini Sharma, “ETM: A survey on Energy, Thermal and Mobility Efficient Routing Protocols for Wireless
Body Area Sensor Network,” International Research Journal of Commerce, Arts and Science, Vol. 8, issue 4 2017, pp.26-38.
9. Latré, B., Braem, B., Moerman, I., Blondia, C., & Demeester, P. (2011). A survey on wireless body area networks. Wireless Networks,
17(1), 1–18.
10. Dagdeviren, C., Yang, B. D., Su, Y., Tran, P. L., Joe, P., Anderson, E., & Rogers, J. A. (2014). Conformal piezoelectric energy
harvesting and storage from motions of the heart, lung, and diaphragm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(5),
1927–1932.
11. Chen, M., Gonzalez, S., Vasilakos, A., Cao, H., & Leung, V. C. (2011). Body area networks: A survey. Mobile Networks and
Applications, 16(2), 171–193.
12. Saleem, S., Ullah, S., & Kwak, K. S. (2011). A study of security protocols for wireless body area networks. Sensors, 11(6), 5192–
5220.
13. Malasri, K., & Wang, L. (2009). Addressing security in medical sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE
International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments, 7–12.
14. Rostami, M., Juels, A., & Koushanfar, F. (2013). Heart-to-heart (H2H): Authentication for implanted medical devices. In Proceedings
of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 1099–1112.
15. Movassaghi, S., Abolhasan, M., & Lipman, J. (2013). Interference mitigation in wireless body area networks using smart antennas.
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 578–583.
16. Fortino, G., Giannantonio, R., Gravina, R., & Guerrieri, A. (2012). A framework for collaborative computing and multi-sensor data
fusion in body sensor networks. Information Fusion, 22, 50–70.
17. Javaid, N., Khan, Z. A., Shakir, M., Khan, M. I., & Khan, S. A. (2012). QoS routing protocols for wireless body area networks: A
review. IEEE Sensors Journal, 13(11), 4121–4132.
18. Ullah, S., Higgins, H., & Kwak, K. S. (2011). Towards QoS aware MAC protocols for wireless body area networks. Sensors, 10(1),
256–279.
19. Ullah, S., Higgins, H., Braem, B., Latre, B., Blondia, C., & Kwak, K. S. (2012). A comprehensive survey of wireless body area
networks. Journal of Medical Systems, 36(3), 1065–1094.
20. IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks–Part 15.6: Wireless Body Area Networks. IEEE Std 802.15.6-2012.
21. Gomez, C., Oller, J., & Paradells, J. (2012). Overview and evaluation of Bluetooth Low Energy: An emerging low-power wireless
technology. Sensors, 12(9), 11734–11753.
22. Qureshi, T. N., Javaid, N., Khan, M. A., Iqbal, A., & Akbar, M. (2015). M-ATTEMPT: A new energy-efficient routing protocol for
wireless body area sensor networks. Procedia Computer Science, 19, 224–231.
23. Li, H., & Tan, J. (2010). Heartbeat-Driven Medium-Access Control for Body Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information
Technology in Biomedicine, 14(1), 44–51.
24. S. Ullah, M. A. Khan, and N. Javaid (2014). "MEDiS: A Multi-hop Energy-efficient Distributed Clustering Scheme for Wireless Body
Area Sensor Networks." Journal of Medical Systems, 38, Article No. 36.
25. Heinzelman, W. R., Chandrakasan, A., & Balakrishnan, H. (2000). "Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless
microsensor networks." Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
26. Younis, O., & Fahmy, S. (2004). "HEED: A hybrid, energy-efficient, distributed clustering approach for ad hoc sensor networks."
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 3(4), 366–379.
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