Link layer behavior of body area networks at 2.4 GHz

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 241-252

  Natarajan, Anirudh ^a   De Silva, Buddhika ^a   Yap, Kok Kiong ^b   Motani, Mehul ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Body area networks; Link layer behavior

Indexed keywords

2.4 GHZ-BAND; BODY AREA NETWORK; EMERGENCY SITUATION; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HUMAN BODIES; LINK LAYERS; NETWORK LIFETIME; PACKET DELIVERY RATIO; PACKET TRANSMISSIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; QUICK RESPONSE; REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; REMOTE MONITORING; ROUTING METRICS; TIME-VARYING ENVIRONMENTS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70450247015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1614320.1614347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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