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The development of wireless sensor networks has revolutionized our lifestyles. The sensor networks can be used for various applications like military surveillance, environment monitoring, medical diagnosis etc. The body area network is defined as a wireless sensor network used for medical diagnosis. The body area networks have to do continuous health monitoring and to provide real-time feedback. The body area networks facilitate continuous monitoring of the physiological parameters. This continuous monitoring for the large time intervals in the natural environment offers better results compared to the physiological parameters obtained from the short duration monitoring.
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Sharma, V., Catthoor, F., Dehaene, W. (2013). Introduction. In: SRAM Design for Wireless Sensor Networks. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4039-0_1
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