A Comparative Study for Evaluating Recent Advances in Wireless Body Sensor Network

Abstract

Internet of things (IoT) network helps communities, cities and industries better manage their work efficiently and provides a superior quality of service. This can be applied on Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSN) employed in health-care industry. As any network, WBSN has its challenges that attracts researchers for its potential in serving humanity. Thus, enhancing WBSN could take many forms like enhancing the en-ergy consumption of sensors, the communication or transmission and data analysis. Many researches cater to the above topics individually or combined to promise better outcomes. In this paper, we present a comparative study for some of the techniques and enhancement that researchers bring into WBSN for e-health applications and highlighting the gaps that would be a target for future researches. We provide a detailed overview of WBSN purposes and used techniques. The paper presents a number of the recent advanced techniques which fall under the survey's objective and compare them. For an objective comparison, we focus on a set of criteria related to e-health and involving data reduction, energy conservation, decision-making up to the intervention.