Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications: Protocol Stack Review

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) supporting healthcare applications are in early development stage but offer valuable contributions at monitoring, diagnostic, or therapeutic levels. They cover real-time medical information gathering obtained from different sensors with secure data communication a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Luis Filipe, Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Nuno Costa, António Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-10-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/213705