Feasibility and performance evaluation of a 6LoWPAN‐enabled platform for ubiquitous healthcare monitoring

Technology has revolutionized medical practices by enabling more convenient and non‐intrusive monitoring of patient's health, leading to next generation ubiquitous healthcare (u‐healthcare). The exploitation of the Internet protocol version 6 addressing space along with the miniaturization of electronic devices has fostered providing interoperability and connectivity of wearable sensor devices in wireless body area networks to the Internet of Things. In this paper, we propose to integrate the IPv6 over low power wireless personal area network (6LoWPAN) to the u‐healthcare monitoring system architecture. The main objective is to study the feasibility of the 6LoWPAN‐enabled platform in real‐world scenarios dealing with medical data. The performance evaluation of this platform is carried out initially through simulations using OMNet++ and then supported by an experimental study using sensor motes and a customized micro‐computing unit. Performance metrics such as throughput, end‐to‐end delay, packet error rate, and energy consumption are investigated under acute health conditions, where patient's health information has to be sent continuously and at maximum rate to the care provider. The obtained results show that the proposed 6LoWPAN solution fulfills the main quality of service requirements of u‐healthcare applications. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

无线体域网中具有生物特征的基于身份的访问控制方案

针对现有无线体域网(WBANs)中的安全和隐私性问题,为了充分利用生物特征的优势来确保WBANs内数据通信的安全性,首次提出了一种具有生物特征的基于身份的隐私保护技术,然后利用该技术在WBANs中提出了一种新的访问控制方法。在安全性方面,在随机预言机模型下是可证明安全的,并且具有机密性、认证性、完整性、不可否认性和匿名性;在性能方面,与现有方案相比,提出方案在计算开销和通信开销方面都具有优势。     

无线体域网中基于属性加密的数据访问控制方案

作为一种新的电子医疗技术,无线体域网(wireless body area networks,WBANs)将在病情监测中发挥重要作用,安全性及隐私性保护是无线体域网的重要内容.针对WBANs数据访问控制提出一种细粒度的数据访问方法,该方法采用基于属性的数据加密方法,加密者将数据访问结构作为访问策略,当解密者所具有的属性满足该结构时,即可访问该数据,否则,拒绝用户访问.分别从正确性、安全性及能量消耗三方面对方案进行分析.仿真实验结果表明,本方案相对其他方案能量消耗较小.     

Impact of priority differentiation on the bridged WBAN/WLAN healthcare networks

In this work, we develop a prioritized bridging mechanism between the IEEE 802.15.6‐based wireless body area networks (WBANs) and the IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA)‐based wireless local area network (WLAN) to convey the medical data to the medical center. We map the eight WBAN user priorities (UPs) into the four WLAN access categories (ACs) to provide the required quality of service and prioritization for the health variables generated by the WBAN nodes. By assignment of WBAN UPs with default medium access control parameters to eight different medical data streams and under the presence of ordinary nodes, we investigate the impact of WLAN AC differentiation by arbitrary inter‐frame space (AIFS) and contention window (CW) on performance of medical and regular nodes’ data streams. The results of this work indicate that the AC differentiation by AIFS outperforms the differentiation by CW in the sense that it does not deteriorate the end‐to‐end delay of relayed WBAN traffic and ordinary WLAN traffic.Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

IOT Assisted Biomedical Monitoring Sensors for Healthcare in Human

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that refers to the deployment of Internet Protocol (IP) address sensors in health care systems to monitor patients’ health. It has the ability to access the Internet and collect data from sensors. Automated decisions are made after evaluating the information of illness people records. Patients’ health and well-being can be monitored through IoT medical devices. It is possible to trace the origins of biological, medical equipment and processes. Human reliability is a major concern in user activity and fitness trackers in day-to-day activities. The fundamental challenge is to measure the efficiency of the human system accurately. Aim to maintain tabs on the well-being of humans; this paper recommends the use of wireless body area networks (WBANs) and artificial neural networks (ANN) to create an IoT-based healthcare framework for hospital information systems (IoT-HF-HIS). Our evaluation system uses a server to estimate how much computing power is needed for modeling, and simulations of the framework have been done using data rate and latency requirements are implementing the energy-aware technology presented in this paper. The proposed framework implements several hospital information system case studies by building a time-saving simulation environment. As the world’s population ages, more and more people suffer from physical and emotional ailments. Using the recommended strategy regularly has been proven user-friendly, reliable, and cost-effective, with an overall performance of 95.2%.     

无线体域网中能量高效且可靠的自适应路由协议

针对无线体域网中因通信链路时变而带来的能量浪费问题,该文提出一种能量高效且可靠的自适应路由协议.该协议在数据传播模型的基础上引入了无线链路质量的计算方法,并将各个链路质量作为隐马尔可夫模型(HMM)的状态观测值进行训练,以此得出最优的路由路径.仿真结果表明,该协议相比于基于预测的安全可靠路由(PSR)协议等已有的预测路由协议,降低了网络的数据丢包率和时延,延长了网络节点的生命周期.     

无线体域网节能MAC协议综论(英文)

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of key energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). At the outset, we outline the crucial attributes of a good MAC protocol for WBAN. Several sources that contribute to the energy inefficiency of WBAN are identified, and features of the various MAC protocols qualitatively compared. Then, we further investigate some representative TDMA-based energy-efficient MAC protocols for WBAN by emphasizing their strength...     

A game theory-based approach for the study of inter-interference in coexisting wireless body area networks

A wireless body area network (WBAN) enables the continuous monitoring of health conditions including heart rate, temperature, and glucose levels. It is composed of several sensors that are placed on the body. The network's performance is significantly affected by the unpredictable movements of the human body. Due to the varying proximities between them, the existence of several WBANs creates a challenge when mobility is involved. In this fictitious scenario, we consider a park area with both mobile and static WBANs or WBAN-equipped individuals passing through the park who have varying degrees of mobility. When a mobile WBAN passes a static WBAN and is within a minimum distance of the static WBAN, they pair up and immediately interfere. Inter-interference caused by WBANs operating in a limited area causes packet loss and performance deterioration. In this work, static WBAN locations are optimised to minimise interference and system inter-interference problems are addressed by a game theoretic method. This paper formulates a flexible game theoretic framework to study WBAN coexistence using the expected pay-off function considering a two-player game. It is observed from the results obtained that the probability of interference caused by fast mobile WBANs is reduced to a maximum of 50% compared with that caused by slow mobile WBANs thereby reducing the need for relocation of static WBANs.