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Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries

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Medical Body Area Network, Architectural Design and Challenges: A Survey

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Medical body area network is a human-centric application of wireless sensor network which has recently gained much significance. The application includes both wearable and implantable sensors for continuous monitoring of patients in hospitals, old houses or at any remote location. These sensor nodes in medical body area network possess all the characteristics of nodes in wireless sensor network. In this paper a survey of medical wireless body area network, its architectural design issues and challenges have been discussed.

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    Madiha Fatima, Adnan K. Kiani & Adeel Baig

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Fatima, M., Kiani, A.K., Baig, A. (2013). Medical Body Area Network, Architectural Design and Challenges: A Survey. In: Shaikh, F.K., Chowdhry, B.S., Ammari, H.M., Uqaili, M.A., Shah, A. (eds) Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries. WSN4DC 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41054-3_6

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