Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. 12th International Conference, QShine 2016, Seoul, Korea, July 7–8, 2016, Proceedings

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Quality of Information for Wireless Body Area Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-60717-7_17,
        author={Shabana Hamid and Anum Talpur and Faisal Shaikh and Adil Sheikh and Emad Felemban},
        title={Quality of Information for Wireless Body Area Networks},
        proceedings={Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. 12th International Conference, QShine 2016, Seoul, Korea, July 7--8, 2016, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2017},
        month={8},
        keywords={Body sensor networks QoI Relaibility},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-60717-7_17}
    }
    
  • Shabana Hamid
    Anum Talpur
    Faisal Shaikh
    Adil Sheikh
    Emad Felemban
    Year: 2017
    Quality of Information for Wireless Body Area Networks
    QSHINE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60717-7_17
Shabana Hamid1, Anum Talpur1, Faisal Shaikh1,*, Adil Sheikh2, Emad Felemban2
  • 1: Mehran UET
  • 2: Umm Al-Qura University
*Contact email: faisal.shaikh@faculty.muet.edu.pk

Abstract

The Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are a specific group of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) that are used to establish patient monitoring systems which facilitate remote sensing of patients over a long period of time. In this type of system, there is possibility that the information accessible to the health expert at the end point may divert from the original information generated. In some cases, these variations may cause an expert to make a diverse decision from what would have been made specified to the original data. The proposed work contributes toward overcoming this foremost difficulty by defining a quality of information (QoI) metric that helps to preserve the required information. In this paper, we analytically model the QoI as reliability of data generation and reliability of data transfer in WBAN.