A survey on wireless body area networks for eHealthcare systems in residential environments Article Accepted Version Ghamari, A., Janko, B., Sherratt, S., Harwin, W., Piechockic, R. and Soltanpur, C. (2016) A survey on wireless body area networks for eHealthcare systems in residential environments. Sensors, 16 (6). 831. ISSN 1424-8220 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/s16060831 Available at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/65749/ It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. See Guidance on citing . Published version at: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/6/831 To link to this article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16060831 Publisher: MDPI All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including copyright law. Copyright and IPR is retained by the creators or other copyright holders. Terms and conditions for use of this material are defined in the End User Agreement . www.reading.ac.uk/centaur CentAUR Central Archive at the University of Reading Reading’s research outputs online 1 Type of the Paper (Review) 2 A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks for 3 eHealthcare Systems in Residential Environments 4 Mohammad Ghamari 1,*, Balazs Janko 2 , R. Simon Sherratt 2, William Harwin 2, Robert 5 Piechockic 3, Cinna Soltanpur 4 6 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA 7 2 School of systems engineering, University of Reading, Reading, UK 8 3 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bristol University, Bristol, UK 9 4 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA 10 * Correspondence:
[email protected]; Tel.: +1-915-383-4996 11 Academic Editor: name 12 Received: date; Accepted: date; Published: date 13 Abstract: The progress in wearable and implanted health monitoring technologies has strong 14 potential to alter the future of healthcare services by enabling ubiquitous monitoring of patients.