The wireless body area network is required by meas of the development of communication technology

the advancement of physiological sensing technology and the increasing human physiological information. WBAN aims to provide real-time and ubiquitous body monitoring to perform au-tonomous early prediction

diagnostic

and tracking the response of the body to treatments

becoming a hot spot of research and application. As the importance of WBAN in daily life has become increasingly prominent

the standard IEEE 802.15.6 was published in 2012

which was specifi cally designed for WBAN. This article focuses on the networking and management in WBAN

analyzing the research status and the insuffi cient of networking and management. Finally

several key issues of networking and management in WBAN are discussed and future directions are pointed out.