Performance evaluation of a ZigBee-based medical sensor network

2009 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare - Pervasive Health 2009, PCTHealth 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fernández López, Helena ^a   Macedo, Pedro ^a   Afonso, José A ^a   Correia, J H ^a   Simoẽs, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Performance evaluation; Quality of service; Vital signals monitoring; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; DELIVERY RATIO; ECG SENSORS; HEALTHCARE FACILITY; LOW DATA RATES; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MEDICAL SENSOR NETWORKS; MONITORING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERSONAL HEALTH CARE; RETRANSMISSIONS; SIMULATION RESULT; VITAL SIGN; VITAL SIGNALS MONITORING; ZIGBEE;

AD HOC NETWORKS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; HEALTH CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 70350746659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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