QoS Issues with Focus on Wireless Body Area Networks
- 1 November 2008
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 1, 801-807
- https://doi.org/10.1109/iccit.2008.130
Abstract
Wireless body area networks (WBAN) applications have emerged as one of the hottest research areas of wireless sensor networks (WSN). With the advent of miniature, cost effective and wearable sensor devices, WBAN has attracted large amount of research time. Lots of works are going on in this direction. Besides open issues in WSN like standardization, energy efficiency, security and privacy factors, QoS issues are also of major concern. Lots of research is going on around the world to improve QoS factors in sensor networks. Some people have suggested protocols with QoS focus for WSN. But QoS requirements vary from application to application. It is fact that the heterogeneous working requirements of WBAN define different QoS issues which are specific to that particular application area only. WBAN applications are very sensitive and hence QoS issues in WBAN require more attention and focus and should be taken up more seriously. In this paper we have tried to present various aspects of QoS with focus on WBAN. We have also tried to present other factors that particularly influence the overall quality of service in WBAN.Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Rise of People-Centric SensingIEEE Internet Computing, 2008
- BodyQoS: Adaptive and Radio-Agnostic QoS for Body Sensor NetworksPublished by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,2008
- Fuzzy Logic Control Based QoS Management in Wireless Sensor/Actuator NetworksSensors, 2007
- Requirements of Quality of Service in Wireless Sensor NetworkPublished by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,2006
- Wireless sensor networks for personal health monitoring: Issues and an implementationComputer Communications, 2006
- A wireless body area network of intelligent motion sensors for computer assisted physical rehabilitationJournal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2005
- An energy-aware QoS routing protocol for wireless sensor networksPublished by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,2004