AIRCC's International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology

Roberto Vito Rodrigues Filho ¹, Renato Freitas Bulcao Neto ¹, Bruno Oliveira Silvestre ¹, Leandro Luis Galdino de Oliveira ¹, Rogerio Orlow de Oliveira ², Iwens Gervasio Sene ³

Affiliations
1 Instituto de Informatica, Universidade Federal de Goias, Goiania – GO, BR
2 Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Goias, Goiania – GO, BR
3 Instituto de Informatica, Universidade Federal de Goias, Goiania – GO,, BR

Abstract

Wearable Wireless Body Area Networks (WWBANs) are an emergent technology enabling the gathering of real-time data, for instance, towards decision making by healthcare professionals in the case of remote monitoring of vital signs of patients. Recent research, however, does not describe in a straightforward way how hardware, software and wireless communication platforms fit together in order to fully support a WWBAN-based healthcare application. In this paper we propose a maturity analysis method of research on WWBANs in healthcare. The goal is to analyze whether a paper contemplates features that a research project on WWBAN in healthcare should have to apply it in a real world scenario. As a result of our method, features not addressed might indicate the lack of maturity of research papers, or even suggest open issues on that field.

Keywords

WWBAN, WBSN, Healthcare, Maturity Level.

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