Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN): A survey on reliability, fault tolerance, and technologies coexistence
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Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has been a key element in e-health to monitor bodies. This technology enables new applications under the umbrella of different domains, including the medical field, the entertainment and ambient intelligence areas. This survey paper places substantial emphasis on the concept and key features of the WBAN technology. First, the WBAN concept is introduced and a review of key applications facilitated by this networking technology is provided. The study then explores a wide variety of communication standards and methods deployed in this technology. Due to the sensitivity and criticality of the data carried and handled by WBAN, fault tolerance is a critical issue and widely discussed in this paper. Hence, this survey investigates thoroughly the reliability and fault tolerance paradigms suggested for WBANs. Open research and challenging issues pertaining to fault tolerance, coexistence and interference management and power consumption are also discussed along with some suggested trends in these aspects. © 2017 ACM.
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Channel access, Fading, Medical, Qos, Wban standards, Wireless body area networks, Ambient intelligence, Chip scale packages, Fault tolerance, Quality of service, Surveys, Wireless networks, Communication standards, Interference management, Networking technology, Technologies coexistence, Wireless body area network, Wireless local area networks (wlan)