Abstract : The chapter describes the activity carried out by COST 2100 on Body Area Networks (BANs) and is organised into three sections: the first section discusses the applications and requirements; the secon section presents the activity on channel measurements and modelling; finally, the third section addresses the existing transmission technologies and describes the results obtained for PHY, MAC and NET layers; low power design is also addressed.
A. Reichman, J. Takada, D. Bajic, y. yazdandoost, W. Joseph, et al.. 15 : Body Communications. Pervasive Mobile and Ambient Wireless Communications (R. Verdone & A. Zanella, Ed.), Springer (COST Action 2100), pp.609-660, 2012. ⟨hal-02286397⟩