Three types of flexible textile antennas for 2.45 GHz body area network (BAN) are compared in this letter. Two types of conducting materials are used to form radiation patch and ground plane, they are called copper foil tape (CFT, 0.05 mm thickness) and Shieldex (SH, 0.13 mm thickness, 0.009 Ohm surface resistivity). The substrate is […]
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Smart community health awareness model
In this paper we present a novel cloud supported model for efficient community health awareness in presence of a large scale WBANs data generation. The objective is to process this big data in order to detect the abnormal data using MapReduce infrastructure and user defined functions with minimum processing delay. The goal is to have […]
Read moreA weighted polling access scheme for Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBAN) is proposed in this paper. In this scheme the sensor nodes are divided into groups and each group has a weight. Each sensor node of each group can transmit packets up to the value of weight, thus limiting the number of packet transmission per […]
Read moreBrain-machine interface (BMI) technology has tremendous potential to revolutionize healthcare by greatly improving the quality of life of millions of people suffering from a wide variety of neurological conditions. Radio-frequency identification (RFID)-inspired backscattering is a promising approach forwireless powering of miniature neural sensors required in BMI interfaces. We analyze the functionality of millimeter-size loop antennas in […]
Read moreIncreasingly, incidental sensing capabilities are being leveraged for wide-area situational awareness of complex network processes. For instance, sensors embedded on miners’ body suits are envisioned for sensing for chemical hazards, blog data is being used to track disease spread, and autonomous vehicle platforms can incidentally measure environmental conditions while engaging in mission tasks. This paper explores how sparse incidental measurements […]
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