Context-aware handover with power efficiency for u-healthcare service in WLAN

Proceedings - 2009 International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science, NISS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1279-1283

  Park, Jong Tae ^a   Nah, Jae Wook ^a   Kim, S W ^a   Chun, S M ^a   Wang, Song ^a   Seo, S H ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Context aware handover; Power efficient; Qos; Wban; uhealthcare; WLAN

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-AWARE HANDOVER; POWER EFFICIENT; QOS; WBAN UHEALTHCARE; WLAN;

HEALTH CARE; INTERNET; SIMULATORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 70449561100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NISS.2009.256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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