Cloud-enabled wireless body area networks for pervasive healthcare

Author

Wan, Jianwei ; Zou, Changyue ; Ullah, S. ; Lai, Chieh-Fan ; Zhou, MengChu ; Wang, Xiongfei

Author_Institution

South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

Volume

27

Issue

5

fYear

2013

fDate

September-October 2013

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

61

Abstract

With the support of mobile cloud computing, wireless body area networks can be significantly enhanced for massive deployment of pervasive healthcare applications. However, several technical issues and challenges are associated with the integration of WBANs and MCC. In this article, we study a cloud-enabled WBAN architecture and its applications in pervasive healthcare systems. We highlight the methodologies for transmitting vital sign data to the cloud by using energy-efficient routing, cloud resource allocation, semantic interactions, and data security mechanisms.

Keywords

biomedical communication; body area networks; cloud computing; computer network security; health care; mobile computing; resource allocation; telecommunication network routing; MCC; cloud resource allocation; cloud-enabled WBAN architecture; cloud-enabled wireless body area networks; data security mechanisms; energy-efficient routing; mobile cloud computing; pervasive health care applications; semantic interactions; vital sign data transmission; Biomedical monitoring; Body area networks; Cloud computing; Mobile communication; Pervasive computing; Semantics; Servers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MNET.2013.6616116

Filename

6616116