The road ahead for body-centric wireless communication and networks
Affiliation
University of BedfordshireTexas A & M University at Qatar
University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
Queen Mary University of London
Issue Date
2015-02-26Subjects
body-centric wireless communicationbody-centric wireless networks,
body area networks
wearable technology
wearable devices
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Wireless interaction of the human user with the computing devices has seen a profound growth in the past decade. Wearable technology has successfully moved past the adoption stage and now stands at the brink of massive diversification with an explosion in popularity and applicability. The estimated market value of the wearable technology is expected to hit $32 billion mark by 2020 [1, 2]. It would cause the global wearable devices market it to grow from 20 million device shipments in 2015 to 187.2 million units annually by 2020 [3].Citation
Ur-Rehman M, Hussain Abbasi Q, Alomainy A (2016) 'The road ahead for body-centric wireless communication and networks', IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, 9 (3), pp.243-251.Additional Links
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7047329/Type
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enISSN
1751-8725ISBN
9781849199896ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1049/PBTE065E_ch13