title: A review on telemedicine-based WBAN framework for patient monitoring.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In this article, we describe the important aspects like major characteristics, research issues, and challenges with body area sensor networks in telemedicine systems for patient monitoring in different scenarios. Present and emerging developments in communications integrated with the developments in microelectronics and embedded system technologies will have a dramatic impact on future patient monitoring and health information delivery systems. The important challenges are bandwidth limitations, power consumption, and skin or tissue protection.
  
  
  METHODS
  This article presents a detailed survey on wireless body area networks (WBANs).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We have designed the framework for integrating body area networks on telemedicine systems. Recent trends, overall WBAN-telemedicine framework, and future research scope have also been addressed in this article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India. cchakrabarty@bitmesra.ac.in
authors.forename: Chinmay
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.forename: Bharat
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Soumya K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Ghosh
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*