Employing IEEE 802.15.4 for quality of service provisioning in wireless body area sensor networks

Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 902-909

  Cao, Huasong ^a   González Valenzuela, Sergio ^a   Leung, Victor C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guranteed time slot scheduling; IEEE 802.15.4; Quality of service; Wireless body area sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ADMISSION CONTROL; CONTENTION ACCESS PERIODS; CONTENTION-FREE; DATA STREAM; FRAME STRUCTURE; HUMAN BODIES; IEEE 802.15.4; QOS PROVISIONING; QUALITY OF SERVICE GUARANTEES; QUALITY OF SERVICE PROVISIONING; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; TIME CONSTRAINTS; TIME SLOT SCHEDULING; TRAFFIC STREAMS; WIRELESS BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORK; WIRELESS NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77954319849     PISSN: 1550445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AINA.2010.58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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