TY - JOUR
T1 - QoS in Body Area Networks: A survey
AU - Razzaque, Mohammad A.
AU - Hira, Muta
AU - Dira, Mukta
PY - 2017/9/3
Y1 - 2017/9/3
N2 - Body Area Networks (BANs) are becoming increasingly popular and have shown great potential in realtime
monitoring of the human body. With the promise of being cost effective, unobtrusive, and facilitating
continuous monitoring, BANs have attracted a wide range of monitoring applications, including medical and
healthcare, sports, and rehabilitation systems. Most of these applications are real-time and life-critical, and
require a strict guarantee of Quality of Service (QoS), in terms of timeliness, reliability, etc. Recently, there
have been a number of proposals describing diverse approaches or frameworks to achieve QoS in BANs (i.e.,
for different layers or tiers, different protocols). This survey put these individual efforts into perspective and
presents a more holistic view of the area. In this regard, this article identifies a set of QoS requirements
for BANs applications and shows how these requirements are linked in a 3-tier BAN system, and presents
a comprehensive review of the existing proposals against those requirements. In addition, open research
issues, challenges, and future research directions in achieving these QoS in BANs are highlighted.
AB - Body Area Networks (BANs) are becoming increasingly popular and have shown great potential in realtime
monitoring of the human body. With the promise of being cost effective, unobtrusive, and facilitating
continuous monitoring, BANs have attracted a wide range of monitoring applications, including medical and
healthcare, sports, and rehabilitation systems. Most of these applications are real-time and life-critical, and
require a strict guarantee of Quality of Service (QoS), in terms of timeliness, reliability, etc. Recently, there
have been a number of proposals describing diverse approaches or frameworks to achieve QoS in BANs (i.e.,
for different layers or tiers, different protocols). This survey put these individual efforts into perspective and
presents a more holistic view of the area. In this regard, this article identifies a set of QoS requirements
for BANs applications and shows how these requirements are linked in a 3-tier BAN system, and presents
a comprehensive review of the existing proposals against those requirements. In addition, open research
issues, challenges, and future research directions in achieving these QoS in BANs are highlighted.
U2 - 10.1145/3085580
DO - 10.1145/3085580
M3 - Article
SN - 1550-4859
SP - -
JO - ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
JF - ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
ER -