Probabilistic localization for outdoor wireless sensor networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Novel QoS scheduling and energy-saving MAC protocol for body sensor networks optimization
BodyNets '08 Proceedings of the ICST 3rd international conference on Body area networks
Highly reliable energy-saving MAC for wireless body sensor networks in healthcare systems
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on wireless and pervasive communications for healthcare
Employing IEEE 802.15.4 for Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks
AINA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
Wireless sensor networks for healthcare: A survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Anomaly Detection with Wireless Sensor Networks
NCA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications
Fundamentals of Queueing Theory
Fundamentals of Queueing Theory
Enabling technologies for wireless body area networks: A survey and outlook
IEEE Communications Magazine
A Comprehensive Survey of Wireless Body Area Networks
Journal of Medical Systems
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Wireless sensor networks have recently been extensively researched due to the flexibility and cost savings they provide. One of the most promising applications of sensor networks is human health monitoring: wireless sensors are placed on the human body to form a wireless body network where the sensor node can continuously monitor real-time physiological parameters or human activities (motion detection). However, along with the flexibility, many problems arise due to a number of factors, including the bad quality of transmission media and the scarcity of resources. Moreover, sensor networks have different characteristics such as a variety of devices, different generated data, etc. From a quality of service (QoS) point of view, the healthcare domain can be seen as a real-time application demand to consider application requirements. Healthcare domains principally have stringent delay and loss requirements. Thus, considering different capabilities and ensuring time data delivery become necessary. Because wireless body area networks (WBAN) deal with human life, any delayed or lost data can endanger the user's life. This paper proposes a differentiated traffic and scheduling scheme for WBAN. It is based on patients' data classification and prioritization according to their current status and diseases. Through queue scheduling and path choice issues, the urgent data are delivered on time to provide a QoS guarantee for WBAN. Finally, it is shown that the proposed scheme is efficient for timely data transfer in WBAN.