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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2014.18.8.1961

Understanding of Technologies and Research Trends of Wireless Body Area Networks  

Ha, Il-Kyu (Department of Computer Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Ahn, Byoung-Chul (Department of Computer Engineering, Yeungnam University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.18, no.8, 2014 , pp. 1961-1972 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, with the increasing of the interest in the integration of medical technology and information communication technology, researches on WBAN (Wireless Body Area Networks) that try to apply sensor network to the human body have been processed actively. The existing sensor network technology has the potential to be used in WBAN, but it has some limitations also. In particular, because the sensors are likely to communicate through each part of the body, it has a very different network environment from the sensor network that uses a free space. Therefore, researches on WBAN have a variety area of study that slightly different from the conventional sensor networks and take into account the characteristics of the body. In this study, we investigate the environmental characteristics of WBAN that are separated from the conventional sensor network, and the research trends of WBAN systematically by using the technique of SLR (Systematic Literature Review) from 2001 around when the concept of WBAN has been introduced. The investigation includes the classification of research and the researcher's features. And the survey results and the outlook for further study are summarized.
Keywords
Wireless Body Area Networks; Systematic Literature Review; Sensor Networks; Research Trends;
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