Wireless communications technology in telehealth systems

Proceedings of the 2009 1st International Conference on Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace and Electronic Systems Technology, Wireless VITAE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 926-930

  Kailas, Aravind ^a   Ingram, Mary Ann ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative transmission; Routing for body area networks; Telehealth; Telemedicine; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BROADBAND WIRELESS SERVICES; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRONIC INFORMATION; HAND HELD DEVICE; HEALTH MANAGEMENT; LAYER PROTOCOLS; LOW-COST SENSORS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PERVASIVE MONITORING; REAL TIME MONITORING; ROUTING FOR BODY AREA NETWORKS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TELEHEALTH; TELEHEALTH SYSTEM; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; INFORMATION THEORY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TECHNOLOGY; TELEMEDICINE; UNMANNED VEHICLES; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70350754650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WIRELESSVITAE.2009.5172574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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