Developing a bioeffect metric for wireless biomedical sensor networks

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 375-380

  Ren, Hongliang ^a   Meng, Max Q H ^a   Chen, Xijun ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bioeffects; Power control; SAR; WBSN

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; POWER CONTROL;

BIOEFFECTS; RADIOFREQUENCY TRANSMISSION; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34047195748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCICA.2006.1712336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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