Investigating network architectures for body sensor networks

HealthNet'07: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-24

  Natarajan, Anirudh ^a   Motani, Mehul ^a   De Silva, Buddhika ^a   Yap, Kok Kiong ^a,b   Chua, K C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks; Network architecture

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; DESIGN EXPERIMENTS; PROPAGATION MODELS;

DATA STRUCTURES; FADING CHANNELS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 35548957371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1248054.1248061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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