Body Area Networks
Safety, Security, and Sustainability

Explores issues involved in designing safe, secure and sustainable BANs from a cyber-physical systems perspective, for researchers and graduate students.

Sandeep K. S. Gupta (Author), Tridib Mukherjee (Author), Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian (Author)

9781107021020, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 April 2013

154 pages, 31 b/w illus. 9 tables 40 exercises
25.3 x 17.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.49 kg

Body area networks (BANs) are networks of wireless sensors and medical devices embedded in clothing, worn on or implanted in the body, and have the potential to revolutionize healthcare by enabling pervasive healthcare. However, due to their critical applications affecting human health, challenges arise when designing them to ensure they are safe for the user, sustainable without requiring frequent battery replacements and secure from interference and malicious attacks. This book lays the foundations of how BANs can be redesigned from a cyber-physical systems perspective (CPS) to overcome these issues. Introducing cutting-edge theoretical and practical techniques and taking into account the unique environment-coupled characteristics of BANs, the book examines how we can re-imagine the design of safe, secure and sustainable BANs. It features real-world case studies, suggestions for further investigation and project ideas, making it invaluable for anyone involved in pervasive and mobile healthcare, telemedicine, medical apps and other cyber-physical systems.

1. Introduction
2. Body area networks
3. Safety
4. Security
5. Sustainability
6. Regulatory issues
7. Implementation of body area networks
8. Glossary
9. Exercises.

Subject Areas: Computer networking & communications [UT], WAP [wireless technology TJKW], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Biomedical engineering [MQW], Personal & public health [MBNH]