International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2010, Singapore, 7-9 June, 2010

A Survey on Context-Aware Sensing for Body Sensor Networks

Context awareness in Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) has the significance of associating physiological user activity and the environment to the sensed signals of the user. The context information derived from a BSN can be used in pervasive healthcare monitoring for relating importance to events and specifically for accurate episode detection. In this paper, we address the issue of context-aware sen...

Sensor Based Time Series Classification of Body Movement

Advances in sensing and monitoring technology are being incorporated into today’s healthcare practice. As a result, the concept of Body Sensor Networks (BSN) has been proposed to describe the wearable/wireless devices for healthcare applications. One of the major application scenarios for BSN is to detect and classify the body movements for long-term lifestyle and healthcare monitoring. This pa...

International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2011, Dallas, Texas, USA, 23-25 May, 2011

Towards Supporting Contextual Privacy in Body Sensor Networks for Health Monitoring Service

Body Sensor Network (BSN) is a network of sensors attached to human bodies. It can facilitate observers (such as physicians) to monitor subject’s (patients) current status. By continuous monitoring physiological vital signs and physical activities, healthcare professionals can obtain a much more accurate description of a patient’s health condition. Moreover, patients being monitored can be free...

Design and Analysis of an Energy-Saving Distributed MAC Mechanism for Wireless Body Sensor Networks

The fact that the IEEE 802.15.4MAC does not fully satisfy the strict wireless body sensor network (BSN) requirements in healthcare systems highlights the need for the design and analysis of new scalable MAC solutions, which guarantee low power consumption to all specific sorts of body sensors and traffic loads. While taking the challenging healthcare requirements into account, this paper aims f...