CHALLENGES IN DESIGN OF WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK

Abstract

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a kind of personal area network (PAN) where nodes of the network are worn by a person on body. Main purpose of wireless body area network is to record and share values of various physiological parameters of human body. WBAN may find application particularly in healthcare but it is not limited to this field only. This may also find relevance in other fields like sports, entertainment where contextual human body information may play crucial in quality improvement. This paper discusses various challenges in faced in implementation of WBAN which may relate to security and privacy of data, interoperability, data consistency and validation.