Towards energy saving wireless body sensor networks in health care systems

2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Otal, B ^a   Alonso, L ^a   Verikoukis, Ch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks; Distributed queuing; Energy efficiency; Medium access control; Power consumption

Indexed keywords

BODY SENSOR NETWORK; DISTRIBUTED QUEUING; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY SAVING; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; IEEE 802.15.4; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MAC LAYER; MAC PROTOCOL; NETWORK LOAD; RADIO ACTIVATION; TRAFFIC LOADS; WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEALTH CARE; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUEUEING THEORY; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77954895578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2010.5503912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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