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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Context-aware systems: A literature review and classification
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
BSN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Sixth International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on wireless and pervasive communications for healthcare
Non-intrusive Patient Monitoring of Alzheimer's Disease Subjects Using Wireless Sensor Networks
CONGRESS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business
To hop or not to hop: network architecture for body sensor networks
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
A clean-slate architecture for reliable data delivery in wireless mesh networks
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Millimeter-wave soldier-to-soldier communications for covert battlefield operations
IEEE Communications Magazine
Monitoring motor fluctuations in patients with Parkinson's disease using wearable sensors
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on body sensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on body sensor networks
Wearable coach for sport training: A quantitative model to evaluate wrist-rotation in golf
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Channel modeling and performance evaluation of UWB-based wireless body area networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Data security and privacy in wireless body area networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
A system for ubiquitous fall monitoring at home via a wireless sensor network and a wearable mote
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Daily living activity recognition based on statistical feature quality group selection
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Vehicle Ad Hoc networks: applications and related technical issues
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Design challenges for energy-constrained ad hoc wireless networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
Ultra-wideband channel model for communication around the human body
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Part 1
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In this paper, a flexible role-based architecture for Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) is introduced. The proposed non-layered context-aware architecture is application-oriented and able to incorporate future applications. Particular applications have certain requirements. Functional units (roles) instead of protocol layers are designed to perform the required tasks for applications to work properly. The role data of an application is inserted in the role headers of the container and is available for other applications with the same basic, specific or particular roles. Furthermore, the performance of Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ), Forward Error Correction (FEC) block codes and FEC convolutional codes with respect to the throughput efficiency has also been analyzed for a BSN following the proposed role-based architecture. The numerical results show that the proposed role-based architecture outperforms the traditional layered architecture with respect to the throughput efficiency for all error control schemes. FEC block codes are able to maintain a high throughput efficiency over longer distances because the hop length extension technique is applied.