Design of middleware for tele-homecare systems

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1553-1564

  Lu, Hsi Feng ^a   Chen, Jiann Liang ^b  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Middleware; OSGi platform; Residential gateway; Tele homecare system; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION FUNCTIONS; APPLICATION LAYERS; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; AVERAGE DELAY; CLUSTER HEAD; DATA MANAGEMENT; DEVICE MANAGEMENT; HOMECARE; LIFE-TIMES; MEDICAL DEVICES; MEDICAL SENSOR NETWORKS; MESSAGE AGGREGATION; MESSAGE DELAY; MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE; MONITOR SYSTEM; OSGI PLATFORM; POWER EFFICIENCY; PROGRAMMING ABSTRACTIONS; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; RESIDENTIAL GATEWAYS; SERIAL LINK; TELE-HOMECARE SYSTEM; TELE-HOMECARE SYSTEMS; THREE-LAYER; TRANSMISSION ENERGY; TWO LAYERS; VITAL SIGN; WIRED AND WIRELESS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MIDDLEWARE; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 72949108215     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.739     Document Type: Article

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