Wearable Wireless Networks for Internet of Humans: Trends and Challenges

Abstract

Interconnected internet of humans (IoH) is a new paradigm in which wearable wireless networks (WWN) are emerging as a key enabling technology. WWN is revolutionizing health-care, sports and fitness, rescue and emergency management, augmented reality, fashion, and many other applications [1]. Wearable wireless networks composed of various types of devices such as sensors, actuator, coordinators, and gateways etc., to realize on-body, body-to-body (B2B) and off-body wireless communication as shown in Figure 1. However, often these devices are severely constrained due to ultra-low power consumption, miniaturization, low processing and storage capabilities as well as low delay requirements, consequently, the reliability and quality-of-service of above mentioned applications are very challenging.