Transmission power control in body area sensor networks for healthcare monitoring

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-48

  Xiao, Shuo ^a   Dhamdhere, Ashay ^a   Sivaraman, Vijay ^a   Burdett, Alison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Toumaz Technology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body area sensor network; Healthcare monitoring; Transmission power control

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; BENCHMARKING; DIGITAL DEVICES; POWER CONTROL; POWER QUALITY; POWER TRANSMISSION; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RELIABILITY; SENSORS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BODY AREA NETWORKS; BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORK; DYNAMIC POWER CONTROLS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; ENERGY SAVINGS; FEEDBACK INFORMATIONS; FIXED TRANSMIT POWERS; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTHCARE MONITORING; LIFE-TIMES; LOW POWERS; OFFLINE; OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS; RADIO TRANSMIT; TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL; TRANSMIT POWERS; WEARABLE SENSOR DEVICES; WIRELESS LINKS;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 58149492683     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090105     Document Type: Article

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