A body surface coordinator for implanted biosensor networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhen, Bin ^a   Takizawa, Kenichi ^a   Aoyagi, Takahiro ^a   Kohno, Ryuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body area networks; Implant communications; Propagation loss; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SENSORS; BODY AREA NETWORKS; BODY SURFACE; FREQUENCY RANGES; HUMAN BODIES; IMPLANT COMMUNICATIONS; LIFE-TIMES; LONG DISTANCES; LONG-RANGE COMMUNICATIONS; ON-BODY; PATH LOSS; POWER CONSUMPTION; PROPAGATION LOSS; PROSTHETIC DEVICES; ROUTING DATA;

BIOSENSORS; COMMUNICATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70449479868     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2009.5198579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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