LiteMWBAN: A lightweight middleware for wireless body area network

Healthcare is considered as one of the most important agenda to address by many countries worldwide. Thanks to the recent development in wireless sensor technology, a continuous medical monitoring of the patients under their natural physiological states has been made possible and this will certainly help to detect transient life threatening from daily activities. With the growing variety of healthcare sensor devices, it is of interest to deploy a middleware system that shields the underlying technology differences from the application layer. The aim of this paper is to propose LiteMWBAN, a lightweight middleware for wireless medical body area network. The main features of the proposed middleware include support on: (i) multiple sensors and applications, (ii) plug and play, (iii) resource management and alert, and (iv) mobile applications. The prototype of the middleware has been built and its effective uses when deployed with a mobile healthcare application are shown in this paper.