Paper Info
Title
1 Hop or 2 hops: Topology analysis in Body Area Network
Abstract
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have recently received much attention due to the possibility to be used in healthcare applications. For these applications, link reliability and energy efficiency are critical issues, as in many cases, information carried can be vital for the patient and batteries cannot be easily replaced. The wireless on-body channel experiences significant temporal variation due to body movements and the use of relays is sometimes necessary in order to guarantee reliability or improve lifetime. In this paper, an experimental evaluation is used to give a better understanding about reliability, energy consumption and lifetime in a single hop or a two hops communication. This analysis keeps into consideration the correlations between propagation on different links which affect simultaneously the time-varying connectivity on different links of the body. The results shows that an off-body relays could be used to increase data reliability, minimize energy requirements and maximize network lifetime.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882617
Networks and Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
body area networks,health care,telecommunication network reliability,telecommunication network topology,WBAN,data reliability,energy consumption,energy efficiency,healthcare applications,link reliability,network lifetime maximization,off-body relays,single hop communication,time-varying connectivity,topology analysis,two hops communication,wireless body area networks,wireless on-body channel,Energy Efficiency,Network architecture,Relay Mechanism,Wireless Body Area Network
Wireless network,Wireless,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Computer network,Communication channel,Wireless WAN,Body area network,Hop (networking),Energy consumption
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fabio Di Franco120.39
Ilenia Tinnirello267062.49
Yu Ge3192.48