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...vances in wireless and sensor technologies can facilitate the early detection and management of diseases, thus reducing hospitalization and treatment costs and improving the patients’ quality of life =-=[4]-=-. In particular, wireless body area networks (WBANs) support the interconnection of sensors placed on or within the human body, enabling the monitoring of vital signals by sensor nodes, the performanc...

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...issues concerning channel modeling are also analyzed and summarized. An interesting and systematicsstudy of a machine-to-machine (M2M) system for mobile health (mHealth) applications is introducedsin =-=[8]-=-. That is, the different PHY and MAC design approaches to develop efficient mHealthsapplications for WBANs are surveyed and discussed. In addition, the integration challenges betweensdiverse communica...

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... owing to the ubiquitous networking functionalities for various applicationsscenarios [1]. Moreover, the WBAN is also engaged in the research on machine-to-machine systemssfor mHealth (mobile health) =-=[2]-=- from communication perspective.sThere are many emerging challenges [3–5] in the communication of sensors and hub in WBAN.sThe main limitations are provided by the energy-constraint wearable and impla...

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...oencephalogram (EEG), etc., and then deliver the collected data to the coordinator [4]. The coordinator then forwards the received data to a monitoring station or other data management infrastructure =-=[5]-=-. In a WBAN medical monitoring application, different sensor nodes connected inside or on the body are frequently requested to collect body data periodically and then send the data to the coordinator....