Wearable antennas are the vital components for Body Centric Communication (BCC). These have recently gained attention of researchers and received a great deal popularity due to their attractive characteristics opportunities. They fundamental in Wireless Area Networks (WBANs) health care, military, sports, identification purposes. Compared traditional antennas, these work close proximity human b...

5G networks rely on infrastructure-centric cellular solutions to address data traffic and service demands. Continuously scaling infrastructure-centric cellular networks is not exempt of challenges, and beyond 5G networks should consider the active coexistence and coordination of infrastructure-centric and device-centric wireless networks. Device-centric wireless networks will build from device-...

Content centric networking (CCN) is a newly proposed futuristic Internet paradigm in which communication depends on the decoupling of content names from their locations. In CCN-based multihop wireless ad hoc networks, the participating nodes show dynamic topology, intermittent connectivity, channels fluctuation, and severe constraints such as limited battery power. In the case of traffic conges...

Use of emergency messaging system is a key to effective communication in healthcare applications by emergency responders during calamity. Evolving high speed wireless networks facilitate to connect emergency responders to an emergency electronic routing directory, data sharing systems, handling real time emergency information among multiple services. In this paper we analyze the performance of ...

Data-centric storage provides energy-efficient data dissemination and organization for the increasing amount of wireless data. One of the approaches in data-centric storage is that the nodes that collected data will transfer their data to other neighboring nodes that store the similar type of data. However, when the nodes are mobile, type-based data distribution alone cannot provide robust data...

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technology to fully utilize the precious spectrum hardware in wireless systems, which has attracted significant attentions recently. This paper studies ISAC for important challenging monostatic setup, where one single node wishes simultaneously sense radar target while communicating with receiver. Different from most existing schemes th...

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising information-centric architecture for the future Internet that is also gaining momentum in wireless ad hoc networks as an alternative paradigm to traditional IP networking. NDN shares with other information-centric proposals the same innovative concepts, such as named content, name-based routing, and in-network content caching. These principles and the ...

This paper addresses the design challenges in wireless body area networks and gives an overview of recent technological achievements to tackle these challenges. It covers the areas of wireless communication, digital signal processing, sensing and read-out, and energy harvesting. In addition, this paper presents research platforms developed at IMEC/Holst Centre to illustrates how technological b...

In this paper, subject-specific narrowband (2.45 GHz) and ultra-wideband (3–10.6 GHz) on-body radio propagation studies in wireless body area networks (WBANs) were performed by characterizing the path loss for eight different human subjects of different shapes and sizes. The body shapes and sizes of the test subjects used in this study are characterised as thin, medium build, fatty, shorter, av...