Medical Body Area Networks: Mobility and channel modeling

Abstract

Body Area Networks (BANs) have become the focus of both research and industry in the last five years. Furthermore, IEEE has published the official standard in 2012. BANs come in several variants such as Medical (or hospital) BANs (MBANs) and wireless BANs (WBANs). They are also located at the crossing of several domains for example wearables, Internet of Things (IoT), sensors nets, and so on. In this paper we propose contributions at two BAN levels. We first present a system level solution for MBAN mobility and handover (HO). Second, we give a BAN channel model which consists of an extension of our work formerly applied to Wi-Fi and Wimax.