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Understanding of Technologies and Research Trends of Wireless Body Area Networks

Wireless Body Area Networks의 관련기술과 연구경향에 대한 이해

  • Ha, Il-Kyu (Department of Computer Engineering, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Ahn, Byoung-Chul (Department of Computer Engineering, Yeungnam University)
  • Received : 2014.04.29
  • Accepted : 2014.06.18
  • Published : 2014.08.31
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Abstract

Recently, with the increasing of the interest in the integration of medical technology and information communication technology, researches on WBAN (Wireless Body Area Networks) that try to apply sensor network to the human body have been processed actively. The existing sensor network technology has the potential to be used in WBAN, but it has some limitations also. In particular, because the sensors are likely to communicate through each part of the body, it has a very different network environment from the sensor network that uses a free space. Therefore, researches on WBAN have a variety area of study that slightly different from the conventional sensor networks and take into account the characteristics of the body. In this study, we investigate the environmental characteristics of WBAN that are separated from the conventional sensor network, and the research trends of WBAN systematically by using the technique of SLR (Systematic Literature Review) from 2001 around when the concept of WBAN has been introduced. The investigation includes the classification of research and the researcher's features. And the survey results and the outlook for further study are summarized.

최근 들어 정보통신기술과 의료기술의 통합에 관한 관심이 증가되면서 센서네트워크를 인체에 적용하고자 하는 WBAN(Wireless Body Area Networks)에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 기존의 센서네트워크 기술은 WBAN에 이용될 수 있는 가능성을 가지고 있으나, 몇 가지 제약사항을 가지고 있다. 특히 신체의 각 센서는 신체의 각 부분을 관통하여 통신해야 할 가능성이 크므로 자유공간인 센서네트워크와는 상당히 다른 네트워킹 환경을 가진다. 따라서 WBAN에 관한 연구는 기존의 센서네트워크와는 다른 인체의 특성을 고려한 다양한 영역을 연구의 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 센서네트워크와는 다른 WBAN의 환경적인 특성을 조사하고, WBAN의 개념이 도입된 2001년 전후부터 SLR(Systematic Literature Review)기법을 이용하여 WBAN의 연구 경향을 체계적으로 조사한다. 이에는 연구 분류와 연구자의 특성 등이 포함된다. 조사 결과를 요약하고 향후 연구 과제를 전망한다.

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