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Resource Allocation in Body Area Networks for Energy Harvesting Healthcare Monitoring

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Health monitoring body area networks (BANs) have the potential to create a paradigm shift in providing personal healthcare “Johny, Anpalagan (IEEE Potentials 33(2):21-25, 2014) [1].” A BAN consists of multiple wireless body sensors attached to or implanted in the human body to continuously monitor the patient’s vital signs.

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Leng, S., Yener, A. (2017). Resource Allocation in Body Area Networks for Energy Harvesting Healthcare Monitoring. In: Khan, S., Zomaya, A., Abbas, A. (eds) Handbook of Large-Scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare. Scalable Computing and Communications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58280-1_20

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