A Comprehensive Survey of Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have emerged as a promising technology for health monitoring due to their high utility and important role in improving human health. WBANs consist of a number of small battery-operated biomedical sensor nodes placed on the body or implanted, which are used to moni...

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Main Authors: Aisha Bouani, Yann Ben Maissa, Rachid Saadane, Ahmed Hammouch, Ahmed Tamtaoui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2021-01-01
Series:Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5561580