Guest editorial body sensor networks: From theory to emerging applications

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 859-863

  Jovanov, Emil ^a   Poon, Carmen C Y ^b   Yang, Guang Zhong ^c   Zhang, Y T ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e Shenzhen Key Lab for Low Cost Health   (China)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks (BSNs); Sensors; Ubiquitous systems; Wireless body area networks (WBANs)

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSOR DESIGN; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY SENSOR NETWORK; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS (BSNS); EDITORIAL PAPERS; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; ENGINEERING SECTORS; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; INTEGRATED WIRELESS SENSOR; MONITORING SYSTEM; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; SYSTEM-LEVEL APPROACH; UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS; ULTRA-LOW POWER; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS (WBANS);

BIOLOGY; BIOSENSORS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MONITORING; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY;

HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 70449591671     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2034564     Document Type: Review

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