In this paper, we identify and exploit opportunities for cooperation between a group of mobile Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), forming a Body-to-Body Network (BBN), through inter-body interference detection and subsequent mitigation. Thus, we consider a dynamic system composed of several BBNs and we analyze the joint mutual and cross-technology interference problem due to the utilization o...

In hospitals patients and other medical facilities have various levels of mobility, e.g., walking, wheelchairing, eating, etc. There is also growing evidence that for most medical conditions having patients move or walk, as much as they can tolerate, will improve their health. With keeping this in mind, not only static wireless body area network (WBAN) radio channels usually investigated, but a...

conclusions the findings showed a positive effect of therapeutic relationship based on peplau's model on reducing anxiety of patients undergoing cabg. therefore, health care teams, including nurses, should take advantage of appropriate communication with patients in their care procedures. in that regard, peplau's communication model is recommended as a simple, low-cost, and efficient method. re...

Agents are self-contained software entities which act faithfully and autonomously on behalf of a body of knowledge. They can operate in a standalone capacity, or as part of a social group collaborating and coordinating activities with other software agents. To access their knowledge, agents are interfaced with using message passing communication. The principle behind medical communications is t...

In this paper, a switchable textile communication system working at 2.45 GHz ISM band is presented and studied for different locations within a realistic on-body environment. A 3D laser scanner is used to generate a numerical phantom of the measured subject to improve the accuracy of the simulations which are carried out for different body postures. For the off-body communications, the system i...

With recent advances in wireless networking, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) became practically feasible. This paper presents a survey about energy-efficient MAC protocols for WBANs. The importance and significance of MAC protocols are discussed. Several methods that provide energy efficiency for WBANs are identified. Also highlights features of various existing MAC protocols along with the...

A model for EEG as a communication tool of magnetic body is developed. The basic assumption is that communications from cell membrane occur by Josephson radiation inducing the analogs of cyclotron transitions: this leads to resonance conditions forcing the Josephson frequencies to be equal to cyclotron frequencies in the simplest situation. Music metaphorin particular