Paper Info
Title
Dynamic and energy efficient wireless BAN platform for remote health monitoring
Abstract
This paper presents experimental results on a fully functional body area network (BAN) platform in terms of energy consumption, delivery ratio and lifespan. The proposed BAN platform captures, processes, and wirelessly transmits six-degrees-of-freedom inertial and electrocardiogram data in a wearable, non-invasive form factor. A dynamic TDMA MAC layer has been implemented over a 802.15.4 physical layer as well as 2 lightweight protocols: a similarity-based filter to reduce the number of packets sent by the sensors and a polynomial interpolation technique to reduce the size of the packets sent by the coordinator. The system is evaluated regarding the delivery rate, the energy consumption efficiency and the lifetime while considering 3 scenarios and several human activities (sitting, walking, and running). In addition, we compare the sensors' lifespan when bluetooth or 802.15.4 is used. The experimental results show that the proposed MAC layer reduces the number of collisions and is particularly adapted to periodic data traffic from biomedical sensors. Moreover, significant improvements in energy consumption and lifetime are observed enabling health care applications and remote monitoring in harsh environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/WiMOB.2014.6962224
Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Zigbee,access protocols,body area networks,electrocardiography,energy consumption,interpolation,patient monitoring,polynomials,telecommunication traffic,time division multiple access,IEEE 802.15.4 physical layer,MAC layer,TDMA MAC layer,biomedical sensors,bluetooth,collision reduction,dynamic body area network,electrocardiogram data,energy consumption efficiency,energy efficient wireless BAN platform,health care applications,lightweight protocols,periodic data traffic,polynomial interpolation technique,remote health monitoring,similarity-based filter,six-degree-of-freedom
Wireless,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Physical layer,Body area network,Time division multiple access,Energy consumption,Bluetooth,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2160-4886
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karel Heurtefeux1858.23
Nasreen Mohsin251.46
Elyes Ben Hamida3393.66
Hamid Menouar418814.65