# Opportunities and Challenges for Error Correction Scheme for Wireless Body Area Network--A Survey
## 7 Conclusions  
In this paper, we presented a brief review of the different types ECS available in literature that are used in the communication system in the context of WBAN. A summary of the IEEE standard, channel, and network models for WBAN is also presented, which is vital for ECS design for WBAN. Subsequently, we conducted an extensive review of different types of ECS proposed in the literature for WBAN. The review has been conducted by looking into various aspects, for instance, the types of ECS used, types of WBAN, data types considered, and types of channels considered. Finally, we offered future research challenges and opportunities that exist for ECS design for WBAN. We anticipated that the forthcoming ECS for WBAN should be dynamic and involved multiple ECS techniques in WBAN to handle varieties of QoS requirements, latency requirements, and several type of nodes and channels. **Author Contributions:** Introduction--R.K., N.I., K.A. and S.J.H; ECS--R.K. and N.I. ; Standard--R.K. and K.A. ; Channel and Network models--R.K. and S.J.H; Review--R.K., N.I., K.A. and S.J.H. ; Future research--R.K.; Conclusion--R.K. and N.I. **Funding:** This research received no external funding. **Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest. * [PERSON] et al. (2010) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] A Review of Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications. _arXiv_, 2010; arXiv:1001.0831. [CrossRef]
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