Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols
Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols
Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks
Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks
Investigating network architectures for body sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on Systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments
Pervasive healthcare and wireless health monitoring
Mobile Networks and Applications
Body posture identification using hidden Markov model with a wearable sensor network
BodyNets '08 Proceedings of the ICST 3rd international conference on Body area networks
A Low-delay Protocol for Multihop Wireless Body Area Networks
MOBIQUITOUS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking&Services (MobiQuitous)
Energy-Efficient TDMA-Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks
SENSORCOMM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Third International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
Wireless sensor networks for personal health monitoring: Issues and an implementation
Computer Communications
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Characterization and modeling of on-body spatial diversity within indoor environments at 868 MHz
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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
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
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on body sensor networks
BodyMAC: energy efficient TDMA-based MAC protocol for wireless body area networks
ISCIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Communications and information technologies
Wireless sensor networks for healthcare: A survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Wireless, multipurpose in-home health monitoring platform: two case trials
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on affective and pervasive computing for healthcare
Mobile Networks and Applications
Fast track article: Swimming performance and technique evaluation with wearable acceleration sensors
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Wireless multimedia sensor networks: A survey
IEEE Wireless Communications
An application-specific protocol architecture for wireless microsensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Enabling technologies for wireless body area networks: A survey and outlook
IEEE Communications Magazine
Ultra-wideband channel model for communication around the human body
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Part 1
Design of wireless sensor networks for mobile target detection
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) represent one of the most promising approaches for improving the quality of life, allowing remote patient monitoring and other healthcare applications. The deployment of a WBAN is a critical issue that impacts both the network lifetime and the total energy consumed by the network. This work investigates the optimal design of wireless body area networks by studying the joint data routing and relay positioning problem, in order to increase the network lifetime. To this end, we propose a mixed integer linear programming model, the Energy-Aware WBAN Design model, which optimizes the number and location of relays to be deployed and the data routing towards the sink, minimizing both the network installation cost and the energy consumed by wireless sensors and relays. We solve the proposed model in both realistic WBAN scenarios and general topologies, and compare the model performance to the most notable approaches proposed in the literature. Numerical results demonstrate that our model (1) provides a good tradeoff between the energy consumption and the number of installed relays, and (2) designs energy-efficient and cost-effective WBANs in a short computation time, thus representing an interesting framework for the dynamic WBAN design problem.