The wireless autonomous spanning tree protocol for multihop wireless body area networks

2006 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, MobiQuitous

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Braem, Bart ^a   Latré, Benoît ^b   Moerman, Ingrid ^b   Blondia, Chris ^a   Demeester, Piet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; BROADCASTING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 51149121848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MOBIQ.2006.340421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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