Body Area Networks

1. Body Area Networks
MIE 452F
Information Systems Infrastructure
Focus Topic Presentation
By: Danny Leung

2. Presentation Overview
What are Body Area Networks (BANs)?
 Personal Area Networks (PANs)
 Definition & Domain
BAN Applications
 MobiHealth Studies/Implementation
 BAN & JINI
Conclusion
 Further Studies

3. Personal Area Networks
PANs
 interconnection of information technology
devices within the range of an individual
person, typically within a range of 10 meters
WPAN – wireless
Current Developments
 Innovative data delivery involving capacitively
coupling picoamp currents!

4. PANs & BANs
Body Area Networks
 Subgroup of PANs
 Domain: HealthCare
 Compact & Mobile
 Enable transfer of vital
parameters
 Medical Communication

5. BAN Structure
Adapted from
MobiHealth

6. BAN Components
MBU (Mobile Base Unit)
 Known as the processing centre/hub
Sensors & Actuators
Internal ( intra-BAN) Communication
External (Extra-BAN) Communication

7. Extra-BAN Communication
Based on GPRS and UMTS technologies
for wireless broadband data transfer
GPRS (2.5G)
UMTS (3G)

8. GPRS
General Packet Radio Services
Standard for wireless communications
packet-based
runs at speeds up to 115 kilobits per
second, compared with current GSM
(Global System for Mobile
Communications) systems' 9.6 kilobits.
supports a wide range of bandwidths

9. UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications
System
deliver information at speeds up to
2Mbits/sec.
analog cellular was the first generation,
digital PCS (personal communications
service) the second
3G

10. BAN Issues
Security for BAN transmission protocol
Protection of information and control
systems from unauthorized access
Fast, reliable identification and
authentication
Availability & Reliability of communication
resources
QoS guarantees for bandwidth, delay, and
bit error rate

11. BAN Applications
Remote Health Monitoring
MobiHealth, project at the Technical
University Twente, The Netherlands
 Commissioned by the European Commission
(2000)
1st live demo of BAN at the Medica
International and Medical Conference and
Exhibition (2002)

12. MobiHealth
Focus on scenarios such as:
 Trauma Care
 Continual health monitoring
Mobile service platform

13. Service Platform Architecture
Adapted from
[Nikolay Dokovsky, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya, ]
BANip: enabling remote healthcare monitoring with Body Area Networks
International Workshop on scientiFic engIneering of Distributed Java applIcations
27-28 November, 2003; Luxemburg , Luxemburg

14. MobilHealth & JINI
Dynamic discovery of services offered by
a BAN
Requires RMI, so implemented according
to Surrogate Architecture
BANip – an interconnect protocol
Hide complexities
Extendible to webserver technology

15. Adapted from
[Nikolay Dokovsky, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya, ]
BANip: enabling remote healthcare monitoring with Body Area Networks
International Workshop on scientiFic engIneering of Distributed Java applIcations
27-28 November, 2003; Luxemburg , Luxemburg

16. Further Study
Currently MobiHealth
deployed in 9 healthcare field
trials in four European
countries
Evaluate 2.5/3G wireless
technologies
BANs & the development of
in-body communication
systems (Zarlink)

17. References
Val Jones, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, Pieter A.M. Vierhout, ]
Healthcare PANs: Personal Area Networks for trauma care and home care
Fourth International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC)
Sept. 9-12, 2001; Aalborg , Denmark
ISBN 87-988568-0-4
{ healthcare, wireless, broadband, video, trauma, homecare, }
[Dimitri Konstantas, Val Jones, Richard Bults, Rainer Herzog, ]
MobiHealth _ innovative 2.5 / 3G mobile services and applications for healthcare
11th IST Mobile and Wireless Telecommunications Summit 2002
June 16-19, 2002; Thessaloniki , Greece
[Dimitri Konstantas, Val Jones, Richard Bults, Rainer Herzog, ]
MobiHealth - Wireless mobile services and applications for healthcare
International ConferenceOn Telemedicine - Integration of Health Telematics into Medical Practice
Sep 22nd-25th, 2002; Regensburg , Germany
[Nikolay Dokovsky, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya, ]
BANip: enabling remote healthcare monitoring with Body Area Networks
International Workshop on scientiFic engIneering of Distributed Java applIcations
27-28 November, 2003; Luxemburg , Luxemburg
[Ing Widya, Aart van Halteren, Val Jones, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, ]
Telematic Requirements for a Mobile and Wireless Healthcare System derived from Enterprise Models
ConTEL'03 (7th International Conference on Telecommunications)
11-13 June 2003; Zagreb , Croatia
[Val Jones, Aart van Halteren, Ing Widya, Nikolai Dokovsky, George Koprinkov, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, Rainer Herzog, ]
Mobihealth: Mobile Health Services based on Body Area Networks (forthcoming)
In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers ,
[Val Jones, Nadav Shashar, Oded Ben Shaphrut, Kevin Lavigne, Rienk Rienks, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, Pieter Vierhout, Jan
Peuscher, Aart van Halteren, Rainer Herzog, Ing Widya, ]
Remote Monitoring for Healthcare and for Safety in Extreme Environments (forthcoming)
In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers ,

18. More References
[Ing Widya, Pieter Vierhout, Val Jones, Richard Bults, Aart van Halteren, Jan Peuscher, Dimitri Konstantas, ]
Telematics Support for Disaster Situations (forthcoming)
In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers ,
[Val Jones, Aart van Halteren, Nikolai Dokovsky, George Koprinkov, Jan Peuscher, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, Ing Widya, Rainer Herzog, ]
Mobihealth: Mobile Services for Health Professionals(forthcoming)
In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers ,
[Val Jones, F. Incardona, C. Tristram, S. Virtuoso, A. Lymberis, ]
Future Challenges and Recommendations(forthcoming)
In: M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers ,
[Dimitri Konstantas, Aart van Halteren, Richard Bults, K. Wac, Val Jones, Ing Widya, ]
Body Area Networks for Ambulant Patient Monitoring Over NExt Generation Public Wireless Networks(forthcoming)
3th IST Mobile Wireless Communications Summit 2004
27-30 June 2004; Lyon , France
[Aart van Halteren, Richard Bults, Ing Widya, Val Jones, Dimitri Konstantas, ]
Mobihealth-Wireless body area networks for healthcare
New generation of wearable systems for ehealth: towards a revolution of citizens' health and life style
11-14 December 2003; Lucca , Italy
[Dimitri Konstantas, ]
Using UMTS in Emergency health care
Mobile Solutions 2004
16 April 2004; Rotterdam , the Netherlands
http://ulp.zarlink.com/ban.htm
http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/iswc/2004/2186/00/21860184.pdf
http://www.e-ssist.fraunhofer.de/technologien/bodycom/index_e.html
PAN
http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/publications/theses/95.09.zimmerman.pdf
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/mit/sectione/zimmerman.html
ADHOC
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=989711.989713&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=31872468&CFTOKEN=26611005
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/medica2003/download/BAN_E.pdf

19. Discussion/Questions?