Survey of main challenges (security and privacy) in wireless body area networks for healthcare applications
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...Currently, there is a vast diversity of communication protocols with different battery dependability and data range transmissions, such as Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and mobile networks [29]....
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...Currently, there are different healthcare systems that incorporate several technologies to monitor several human physiological status and environmental parameters using different wireless communications technologies, such as ZigBee, 3G, Bluetooth, Ethernet, and Wi-Fi [3]....
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...The Bluetooth and Zigbee protocols are usually used for device-to-device communication, as well as Wi-Fi and mobile networks technologies, such as 3G/4G, have been used recurrently to provide Internet access [139]....
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...The most used technologies, used in six studies, are the Bluetooth protocol and the GPRS/ 3G / HDSPA / 4G, with Wi-Fi in second place....
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...Smartphones are equipped with short-range communication technologies, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but also long-range technologies, such as GPRS, UMTS, and 3G/4G, that can be used for monitoring co-morbid patients remotely using short-range communication inside hospitals and long-range communication inside patients’ home [68]....
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...In fact, security, privacy and Quality of Service (QoS) need to be assessed [67,68]....
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