Body Area Sensor Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Wireless in-body sensor devices are small gadgets that can be located over the body, implanted, injected or swallowed. They include sensors that can sense important health data; microcontrollers can process them locally or they can be transmitted via RF, and actuators can deliver therapy. Some examples include wearable devices, wireless capsule endoscopes, cardiac pacemakers, neural stimulators, and cortical implants.

On-body sensors can usually operate cooperatively with other on-body sensors. This can lead to sophisticated communication protocols. In-body sensors can communicate with subcutaneous or on-body devices that work like a gateway and transmit the data to an off-body device or to the Internet.

This Special Issue will focus on in-body/on-body sensing networks, wireless communication technologies for data and energy transmission, and sensor informatic methods that can transform these devices into autonomous, intelligent medical implants connected to the Internet to provide improved diagnosis, remote monitoring, and targeted therapy delivery.

Both experimental and theoretical approaches are welcome. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Sensing device design operating in or over the body;
• Actuators and stimulators;
• In-body and on-body antenna systems;
• EM characterization of human body tissues and wave propagation;
• Ultra-low-power transceivers;
• Wireless body area networks;
• Energy solutions for implants and on-body sensor devices: energy harvesting and wireless power transfer;
• Sensor informatics—ultra-low-complexity methods for implants and machine learning and artificial intelligence for on/off-body devices for anomaly detection, event prediction, and the localization and tracking of in-body devices;
• Data security and privacy;
• Hardware and software implementations for medical sensors;
• Experimental platforms for testing and verification;
• Advanced sensing methods.

Dr. Sangsoon Lim
Guest Editor

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• in-body and on-body antenna systems
• wireless body area networks
• sensing networks
• wireless communication technologies