Network characteristics of urban environments for wireless BAN

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference Healthcare Technology, BiOCAS2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 179-182

  Motani, Mehul ^a   Yap, Kok Kiong ^a   Natarajan, Anirudh ^a   De Silva, Buddhika ^a   Hu, Siquan ^a   Chua, Kee Chiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW-POWER COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL SCIENCE; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; UNIVERSITY CAMPUS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 67649805495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOCAS.2007.4463338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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