A MAC protocol for cognitive Wireless Body Area Sensor Networking

IWCMC 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 168-172

  Ali, Khaled A ^a   Sarker, Jahangir H ^a   Mouftah, Hussein T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive radio; MAC; QoS; WBAN; WPANs

Indexed keywords

AREA SENSORS; COGNITIVE RADIO; DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; MAC PROTOCOL; PACKET TRANSMISSIONS; TIME SLOTS; TRANSMISSION MEDIUM; TRANSMISSION POWER; WIRELESS BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORK;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO BROADCASTING; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77955163574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1815396.1815436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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