1. Introduction to wireless body area network / Mehmet Rasit Yuce and Jamil Y. Khan -- 2. Wireless patient monitoring in a clinical setting / Esteban J. Pino. [et al.] -- 3. Real-time cardiac arrhythmias monitoring for pervasive health care / Zhou Haiying. [et al.] -- 4. Human bio-kinematic monitoring with body area networks / Roozbeh Jafari. [et al.] -- 5. Signal processing in-node frameworks for wireless body area networks : from low-level to high-level approaches / Francesco Aiello. [et al.] -- 6. Hardware development and systems for wireless body area networks / Mehmet Rasit Yuce -- 7. Wireless body area network implementations for ambulatory health monitoring / Reza Naima and John Canny -- 8. Ambulatory recording of biopotential signals : constraints and challenges for analog design / Refet Firat Yazicioglu. [et al.] -- 9. Network and medium access control protocol design for wireless body area networks / Jamil Y. Khan -- 10. Power management in body area networks for health care applications / Vijay Sivaraman, Ashay Dhamdhere, and Alison Burdett -- 11. Channel modeling of narrowband body-centric wireless communication systems / Simon L. Cotton and William G. Scanlon -- 12. Antenna design and propagation for WBAN applications / Tharaka Dissanayake -- 13. Coexistence issues with wireless body area networks / Axel Sikora -- 14. Implanted wireless communication making a real difference / Henry Higgins -- 15. Wireless power and data telemetry for wearable and implantable electronics / Zhi Yang. [et al.] -- 16. Ultra wideband for wireless body area networks / Mehmet Rasit Yuce and Ho Chee Keong.