An EMI-aware prioritized wireless access scheme for e-Health applications in hospital environments

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1247-1258

  Phunchongharn, Phond ^a   Niyato, Dusit ^b   Hossain, Ekram ^a   Camorlinga, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic interference (EMI); electronic health (e Health) applications; quality of service (QoS); queueing analysis; wireless access

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH (E-HEALTH) APPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS); QUEUEING ANALYSIS; WIRELESS ACCESS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUEUEING THEORY; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; TELEMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TELEMETRY;

EID: 77956356671     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2047507     Document Type: Article

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