Title :
Socialized WBANs in mobile sensing environments
Author :
Honggang Wang ; Zhaoyang Zhang ; Xiaodong Lin ; Hua Fang
fDate :
September-October 2014
Abstract :
It is challenging to improve the performance of WBANs in a mobile social environment due to mobility, privacy concerns, and dynamic social interactions. Mobile social networks are capable of providing an opportunity to address the challenge for rapidly increasing m-Health applications. In this article we propose to construct new algorithms and theoretical models to build s-WBANs that can bridge the WBANs and social networks in the mobile sensing environment. With s-WBANs vital sign data collection and data fusion can be performed reliably and securely over a dynamic social environment. Further, an s-WBAN application of epidemic control by fusing the information of WBANs and social interaction via mobile gateway (i.e. smartphone) will be investigated, illustrating the practical significance of the proposed s-WBANs.
Keywords :
body area networks; mobile communication; wireless sensor networks; data fusion; mobile sensing environments; mobile social networks; socialized WBAN; vital sign data collection; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Privacy; Sensors; Social network services; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;
Journal_Title :
Network, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MNET.2014.6915446