Wireless sensor networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
LifeMinder: A Wearable Healthcare Support System Using User's Context
ICDCSW '02 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
The Personal Server: Changing the Way We Think about Ubiquitous Computing
UbiComp '02 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Studying the Use of Handhelds to Control Smart Appliances
ICDCSW '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Energy efficiency of handheld computer interfaces: limits, characterization and practice
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
A Phone-Centered Body Sensor Network Platform: Cost, Energy Efficiency & User Interface
BSN '06 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks
Optimal Allocation of Time-Resources for Multihypothesis Activity-Level Detection
DCOSS '09 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Energy-efficient low duty cycle MAC protocol for wireless body area networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on body sensor networks
Energy optimization in wireless medical systems using physiological behavior
WH '10 Wireless Health 2010
Body Area Networks for Ubiquitous Healthcare Applications: Opportunities and Challenges
Journal of Medical Systems
KNOWME: An Energy-Efficient Multimodal Body Area Network for Physical Activity Monitoring
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - Special Section on CAPA'09, Special Section on WHS'09, and Special Section VCPSS' 09
Behavior-oriented data resource management in medical sensing systems
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Power constrained sensor sample selection for improved form factor and lifetime in localized BANs
Proceedings of the conference on Wireless Health
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Wireless body-area networks (WBANs) have revolutionized the way mobile and wearable computers communicate with their users and I/O devices. We investigate an energy-efficient wireless device driver for low-duty peripherals, sensors and other I/O devices employed in a WBAN to communicate with a more powerful central device. We present an extensive comparative study of two popular WBAN technologies, 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) and 802.15.4 (ZigBee), in terms of design cost, performance, and energy efficiency. We discuss the impact of tunable parameters of the wireless device driver on connection latency and energy consumption for both Bluetooth and ZigBee. We address dynamic resource management in higher-level protocols by investigating the trade-off between connection latency and energy consumption. We propose an energy-efficient power-down policy that utilizes the interval between consecutive connection requests for energy reduction; we study an adaptive connection latency management technique that adjusts various tunable parameters dynamically to achieve minimum connection latency without changing the energy consumption level. Our measurements and experimental results show that these techniques are very effective in reducing energy consumption while meeting connection latency requirements.