Body Sensor Networking, Design and Algorithms. Saeid Sanei

10.8 Cooperative Adaptive Filtering 10.9 Multichannel Signal Processing 10.10 Signal Processing Platforms for BANs 10.11 Conclusions References

      14  11 Communication Systems for Body Area Networks 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Short-range Communication Systems 11.3 Limitations, Interferences, Noise, and Artefacts 11.4 Channel Modelling 11.5 BAN-WSN Communications 11.6 Routing in WBAN 11.7 BAN-building Network Integration 11.8 Cooperative BANs 11.9 BAN Security 11.10 Conclusions References

      15  12 Energy Harvesting Enabled Body Sensor Networks 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Energy Conservation 12.3 Network Capacity 12.4 Energy Harvesting 12.5 Challenges in Energy Harvesting 12.6 Types of Energy Harvesting 12.7 Topology Control 12.8 Typical Energy Harvesters for BSNs 12.9 Predicting Availability of Energy 12.10 Reliability of Energy Storage 12.11 Conclusions References

      16  13 Quality of Service, Security, and Privacy for Wearable Sensor Data 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Threats to a BAN 13.3 Data Security and Most Common Encryption Methods 13.4 Quality of Service (QoS) 13.5 System Security 13.6 Privacy 13.7 Conclusions References

      17  14 Existing Projects and Platforms 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Existing Wearable Devices 14.3 BAN Programming Framework 14.4 Commercial Sensor Node Hardware Platforms 14.5 BAN Software Platforms 14.6 Popular BAN Application Domains 14.7 Conclusions References

      18  15 Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Research 15.1 Summary 15.2 Future Directions in BSN Research 15.3 Conclusions References

      19  Index

      20  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 3Table 3.1 Biosensors, their principle, applications, and bibliography.Table 3.2 Use of biosensors in disease diagnosis.

      2 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Description and notation of the different PTT-based methods.

      3 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Average RoMs for different hip, knee, and ankle movements according...

      4 Chapter 8Table 8.1 Sensors/devices used in health monitoring applications [3].Table 8.2 Vital signs and their scores based on the NEWS system.Table 8.3 Clinical risk associated with the final aggregate NEWS score.

      5 Chapter 11Table 11.1 List of scenarios and their descriptions; LOS refers to line-of-si...Table 11.2 The carrier-frequency bands and channel bandwidths for the three B...

      6 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Power consumption for Crossbow MICAz [1], Intel IMote2 [2], and Je...Table 12.2 Properties of energy-harvesting sources. Taken from [34] and [35].

      7 Chapter 14Table 14.1 Popular BAN systems [19].

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Overall architecture of a BSN.Figure 1.2 Main research areas in a BSN.

      2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Schematic of some possible blocking of heart arteries with differ...Figure 2.2 Different brain sensory zones. (See color plate section for color...

      3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 The mechanism of a piezoelectric accelerometer.Figure 3.2 Top view of a simplified accelerometer sensor from ADXL50 [49] da...Figure 3.3 A simple diagram of a gyroscope rotating clockwise. On the left, ...Figure 3.4 A simple EEG differential amplifier used in EEG or EMG systems.