Network Protocols and Applications for Wireless Body Area Networks
Date: Nov. 13, 2009
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: 235 Broun Hall
Subir Biswas
Associate Professor
Michigan State University
Biswas is an associate professor and the director of the networked embedded and wireless systems laboratory at Michigan State University. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge, has published more than 90 articles in the area of network protocols and is co-inventor of four U.S. patents. His current research interests include wireless data networking, low power network protocols and application specific sensor networks.
Abstract
Network Protocols and Applications for Wireless Body Area Networks
Biswas' presentation will show the value of WBANs in collecting real-time physiological information for remote monitoring and medicine administration as a part of a broader managed health care routine. Biswas will provide a formulation of the network problems that are specific to WBANs and present a number of specific protocol solutions for transmission power assignment with postural position inference for on-body wireless communication links; probabilistic routing in on-body sensor networks with postural disconnections; and physical context detection using wearable wireless sensor networks.
