The Special Section in IEEE Access on Body Area Networks (BAN) collects the extended versions of the best manuscripts submitted to and presented at “Bodynets 2016,” a conference that “aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines to plan, analyze, design, build, deploy and experiment with/on Body Area Networks (BANs)” http://bodynets.org/2016/show/home, held in December 2016 in Torino, Italy.