Security issues of wireless sensor networks in healthcare applications

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 138-144

  Ng, Hock Soon ^a   Sim, Moh Lim ^b   Tan, Chor Min ^b  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b British Telecommunications (BT)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL DATA PRIORITISATION; DYNAMIC AD HOC TOPOLOGY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MOBILE COMPUTING; PATIENT MONITORING; SECURITY OF DATA;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33745853759     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10550-006-0051-8     Document Type: Article

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