Wireless aspects of telehealth

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 673-686

  Kailas, Aravind ^a   Ingram, Mary Ann ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative transmission; Medical telemetry; Routing for body area networks; Telehealth; Telemedicine; Wireless communications; Wireless propagation models

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; MEDICAL TELEMETRY; TELEHEALTH; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; UNMANNED VEHICLES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70450235226     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-009-9763-7     Document Type: Article

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