Definition, BAN and Healthcare, Technical Challenges- Sensor design, biocompatibility, Energy Supply, optimal node placement, number of nodes, 5G/6G-enabled BAN applications
BAN Architecture – Processor-Low Power MCUs, Mobile Computing MCUs, Integrated processor with radio transceiver, Memory, Antenna-PCB antenna, Wire antenna, Ceramic antenna, External antenna, Sensor Interface, Power sources- Batteries and fuel cells for sensor nodes.
RF communication in Body, Antenna design and testing, Propagation, Base Station-Network topology-Stand –Alone BAN, Wireless personal Area Network Technologies-IEEE 802.15.1, IEEE 802.15.16, ZigBee, AI and Machine Learning-driven BANs
Interferences – Intrinsic - Extrinsic, Effect on transmission, Counter measures- on physical layer and data link layer, Regulatory issues-Medical Device regulation in USA and Asia, Security and Self-protection-Bacterial attacks, Virus infection, secured protocols, Self-protection.
Monitoring patients with chronic disease, Hospital patients, Elderly patients, Cardiac arrhythmias monitoring, Multi patient monitoring systems, Multichannel Neural recording, Electronic pill, integration with AR/VR and digital twins.
Reference Book:
REFERENCES Zhang, Yuan-Ting, “Wearable Medical Sensors and Systems’’, Springer, 2013. Guang-Zhong Yang(Ed.), “Body Sensor Networks’’, Springer, 2006. Annalisa Bonfiglio, Danilo De Rossi, "Wearable Monitoring Systems", Springer, 2011. Wang et al., “Artificial Intelligence Enabled Wireless Networking for 5G and Beyond: Recent Advances and Future Challenges” (2020) Lin et al., “6G Digital Twin Networks: From Theory to Practice” (2022)
Text Book:
T1 Sandeep K.S. Gupta,Tridib Mukherjee, Krishna Kumar Venkata Subramanian, “Body Area Networks Safety, Security, and Sustainability’’, Cambridge University Press, 2013 T2 Mehmet R. Yuce, Jamil Y.Khan, “Wireless Body Area Networks Technology, Implementation, and Applications”, Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 2012
