... fitnessmonitoring). Furthermore, since energy is critical in the design of autonomous BANs in the context of medicalapplications [16-18], an accurate evaluation of the impacts of the BAN topology ... between data generation and data transmissions at the sensors. Data generation, in real applications, depends on the quantity to be measured; data transmission depends on the communication system ... reflections off the environment.A substantial measurement campaign has shown that the contribution of the environment can be considered, on average, as an additive, constant power when the transmission...