On PHY and MAC performance in body sensor networks

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ullah, Sana ^a   Higgins, Henry ^b   Islam, S M Riazul ^a   Khan, Pervez ^a   Kwak, Kyung Sup ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b Zarlink Semiconductor   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY IMPLANTS; BODY MODELS; BODY SENSOR NETWORK; BODY TISSUES; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER COMMUNICATION; MAC PROTOCOL; ON-BODY; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; SIMULATION STUDIES; TDMA PROTOCOL;

COMMUNICATION; LIQUIDS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 68949093827     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/479512     Document Type: Article

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