Browsing by Author "Alam, Muhammad Mahtab"
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A Heuristic Self-Adaptive Medium Access Control for Resource-Constrained WBAN Systems
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Hamida, Elyes; Berder, Olivier; Menard, Daniel; Sentieys, Olivier ( IEEE , 2016 , Article)This paper presents a heuristic-based approach to self-adapt and reconfigures the wake-up schedule of the nodes in wireless body area networks (WBANs). A latency-energy-optimized traffic-aware dynamic medium access control ... -
A novel multi-hop body-To-body routing protocol for disaster and emergency networks
Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Attia, Rabah; Ben Hamida, Elye ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference)In this paper, a new multi-hop routing protocol (called ORACE-Net) for disaster and emergency networks is proposed. The proposed hierarchical protocol creates an ad-hoc network through body-To-body (B2B) communication ... -
Advances in Wearable Sensor Technology and its Applications in Mobile Workforces Health Monitoring and Safety Management
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Society of Petroleum Engineers , 2014 , Conference)With the advances in electronics and the development of short range and ultra-low power radio transceivers, Wearable Wireless Sensor Networks (W-WSNs) have recently emerged as a key enabling technology for the health ... -
Behavior of wireless body-to-body networks routing strategies for public protection and disaster relief
Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Attia, Rabah; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)Critical and public safety operations require realtime data transfer from the incident area(s) to the distant operations command center going through the evacuation and medical support areas. Any delay in communication may ... -
CROW2: Internet of humans-based platform for disaster relief and emergency communication
Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Attia, Rabah; Ben Hamida, Elyes; Kadri, Abdullah ( IEEE , 2017 , Conference)During a disaster incident, existing network infrastructures might either be damaged or overloaded. However, disaster operations require real-time and low latency data communication, especially live video and audio streaming, ... -
Data dissemination strategies for emerging wireless body-to-body networks based Internet of Humans
Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Attia, Rabah; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)With the recent advent of Internet of Humans (IoH), wireless body-to-body networks (WBBNs) are emerging as the fundamental part of this new paradigm. In particular with reference to newly emerging applications, the research ... -
Dynamic Scheduled Access Medium Access Control for Emerging Wearable Applications
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben-Arbia, Dhafer; Ben-Hamida, Elyes ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference)Context and Motivation Wearable technology is emerging as one of the key enablers for the internet of everything (IoE). The technology is getting mature by every day with more applications than ever before consequently ... -
Enhanced IoT-based end-to-end emergency and disaster relief system
Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Kadri, Abdullah; Ben Hamida, Elyes; Attia, Rabah ( MDPI , 2017 , Article)In this paper, we present a new enhancement for an emergency and disaster relief system called Critical and Rescue Operations using Wearable Wireless sensors networks (CROW2). We address the reliability challenges in setting ... -
Implementation and benchmarking of a novel routing protocol for tactical mobile ad-hoc networks
Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Kadri, Abdullah; Attia, Rabah; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( IEEE Computer Society , 2016 , Conference)Providing efficient routing service over tactical multi-hop ad-hoc networks is a crucial building block in wireless communication networks especially during a disaster relief. To date, there is still a lack of routing ... -
Interference mitigation and coexistence strategies in IEEE 802.15.6 based wearable body-to-body networks
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference)This paper is focused on understanding the impact of interference in wearable wireless body-to-body networks (BBN).We have presented and compared two non-collaborative schemes (i.e., Time-shared and channel hopping) and ... -
Joint throughput and channel aware (TCA) dynamic scheduling algorithm for emerging wearable applications
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)This paper addresses a reliability concern of the emerging wearable applications under dynamic and realistic conditions. We propose a new joint throughput and channel aware (TCA) dynamic scheduling algorithm for IEEE ... -
ORACE-Net: A novel multi-hop body-to-body routing protocol for public safety networks
Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Attia, Rabah; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Springer New York LLC , 2017 , Article)With the growing increase of disasters worldwide, in terms of frequencies, intensities and unpredictability, there is currently a growing need for novel ubiquitous communication systems enabling public safety networks ... -
Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC for Wearable Body Sensor Networks using a Space-Time dependent radio link model
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Hamida, Elyes Ben ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference)In this paper a realistic performance evaluation of the IEEE 802:15:6 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) is presented. The accuracy of the evaluation rely on the enhanced mobility ... -
Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.6-based WBANs under co-channel interference
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Inderscience Publishers , 2017 , Article)In this paper, interference mitigation and coexistence strategies proposed in IEEE 802.15.6 standard are investigated within the context of co-channel interference. A comparative evaluation of the reference scenario (which ... -
Realistic simulation for body area and body-to-body networks
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Hamida, Elyes; Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Maman, Mickael; Mani, Francesco; Denis, Benoit; D'Errico, Raffaele... more authors ... less authors ( MDPI , 2016 , Article)In this paper, we present an accurate and realistic simulation for body area networks (BAN) and body-to-body networks (BBN) using deterministic and semi-deterministic approaches. First, in the semi-deterministic approach, ... -
Research trends in multi-standard device-to-device communication in wearable wireless networks
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Hamida, Elyes Ben ( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference)Wearable Wireless Networks (WWN) aim to provide attractive alternate for conventional medical care system. It is an effective way of monitoring patients within clinics, hospitals and remotely from home, offices etc. In ... -
Short-term link quality estimation for Opportunistic and Mobility Aware Routing in wearable body sensors networks
Ben Hamida, Elyes; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Maman, Mickael; Denis, Benoît ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference)This paper investigates the issues related to the link quality estimation and routing performance in highly dynamic WBSNs, where the inherent body mobility introduces frequent time and space variations in the observed link ... -
Strategies for Optimal MAC Parameters Tuning in IEEE 802.15.6 Wearable Wireless Sensor Networks
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Springer New York LLC , 2015 , Article)Wireless body area networks (WBAN) has penetrated immensely in revolutionizing the classical heath-care system. Recently, number of WBAN applications has emerged which introduce potential limits to existing solutions. In ... -
Surveying wearable human assistive technology for life and safety critical applications: Standards, challenges and opportunities
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Hamida, Elyes Ben ( MDPI , 2014 , Article Review)In this survey a new application paradigm life and safety for critical operations and missions using wearable Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) technology is introduced. This paradigm has a vast scope of applications, ... -
Towards accurate mobility and radio link modeling for IEEE 802.15.6 wearable body sensor networks
Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Hamida, Elyes Ben ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference)In this paper accurate mobility and radio link modeling for intra-body communication is presented. The proposed enhanced mobility and radio link models introduce space and time variations to existing IEEE 802.15.6 channel ...






