A Review on Wireless Body Area Network

Kiran, Pooja Ahlawat

Abstract: WBAN is in recent trend due to its numerous applications in health monitoring. This paper studies the WBAN and its architecture. Various applications along with difference between the WBAN and the WSN are also given in the paper. This paper mainly focuses the various MAC issues available for WBAN. The paper also discusses the various works done in the WBAN field.

Keywords: WBAN, MAC, WSN, Base station, ECG.