Body area networks tutorial: toward a wearable internet

On Feb 3, we delivered our Body Area Networks tutorial in Melbourne at the 2011 Australian Communications Theory Workshop. The slides are available online from the NICTA publication site doc:4690 the pdf is several Mb's so be warned!

The audience was mostly wireless and sensor network researchers - PhD students and postdocs - it looks like wireless-Body Area Network research is starting to take off in Australia.

Post-script: David Skellern is presenting some of NICTA's wireless health work at the Wireless Health conference in Sydney on Feb 18: go see what else is happening in Wireless Health in and around NICTA!

Australian Communications Theory Workshop

We'll be presenting several posters at the Australian Communications Theory Workshop in Canberra over the next few days -- Wed to Fri. If you're at the Australian National University, then feel free to drop by and visit.

In particular, we've got work on (links are to those posters that have associated papers):

• Channel characterisation and prediction (wed)
• Sparsity enhancing windows (thurs)
• Body Area Networks: Lessons learnt (thurs)
• Body Area Network transmission power control (fri)

You can find more publications here