Human Body Network: Network in the Future?

Author

Wu, Zheng ; Xiao, Debao ; Peng, Xi ; Xu, Hui ; Zhuang, Xin

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Network & Commun. Technol., CCNU, Wuhan

fYear

2008

fDate

21-22 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

578

Lastpage

581

Abstract

Based on the analysis of accomplishments and trends of modern technologies (such as the computer, wireless communication, creature science, nanotechnology, medical science, et al.), this paper makes a prediction of the future network, and proposes a new concept - the human body network (HBN), which is formed by people around the world whom are equipped with special micro chip in their body. The HBN is the integration and evolution of modern concepts of the wireless body area network (WBAN), the wireless personal area network (WPAN) and the wireless sensor network (WSN), and it has abilities in long distance communication. Some key issues such as the structure, protocol, identification code, benefits, and problems waiting to solve are discussed.

Keywords

body area networks; personal area networks; wireless sensor networks; human body network; wireless body area network; wireless personal area network; wireless sensor network; Body sensor networks; Computer networks; Humans; Large scale integration; Microprocessors; Microwave technology; Multiaccess communication; Wireless communication; Wireless personal area networks; Wireless sensor networks; the Human Body Network; the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN); the Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN); the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN); the future network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling Workshop, 2008. KAM Workshop 2008. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3530-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3531-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KAMW.2008.4810554

Filename

4810554