Highly reliable energy-saving mac for wireless body sensor networks in healthcare systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 553-565

  Otal, Begonya ^a   Alonso, Luis ^b   Verikoukis, Christos ^a  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks, Energy consumption, Fuzzy logic, Healthcare, Medical applications, Medium access control, Quality of service, Scheduling

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; BATTERY LIFETIME; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, FUZZY LOGIC, HEALTHCARE, MEDICAL APPLICATIONS, MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL, QUALITY OF SERVICE, SCHEDULING; CROSS-LAYER; DATA TRANSMISSION; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENTIRE SYSTEM; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; INPUT VARIABLES; MAC MODELS; MEDICAL SETTINGS; MESSAGE LATENCY; PACKET DELAY; RADIO ACTIVATION; RELIABLE ENERGY; RESIDUAL BATTERY; TIME SLOTS; WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY POLICY; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 67349126471     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090516     Document Type: Article

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