13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks [Hardcover]

The papers in this proceeding discuss current and future trends in wearable communications and personal health management through the use of wireless body area networks (WBAN). The authors posit new technologies that can provide trustworthy communications mechanisms from the user to medical health databases. The authors discuss not only on-body devices, but also technologies providing information in-body. Also discussed are dependable communications combined with accurate localization and behavior analysis, which will benefit WBAN technology and make the healthcare processes more effective. The papers were presented at the 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS 2018), Oulu, Finland, 02-03 October 2018.

Introduction.- Ultra Wide Band for Body Area Networks.- Smart Body Area Networks .- Security & Safety.- Communications and Networking.- Systems and Applications.- Medical Applications.- Case studies & Wearable devices.- Antenna/Propagation and WiBEC project.- Conclusion.

Chika Sugimoto received the B.S. degree in Engineering, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Environment from The University of Tokyo, respectively. During 2006-2010, she was an assistant professor of Graduate school of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. Since 2010 she is an associate professor of Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University. She is a member of IEEE. Her research fields are human informatics and medical ICT. 

Hamed Farhadi is Experienced Researcher at Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden, and Associate Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He received his PhD degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2014. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, USA in 2016, and a Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden lƒb