Energy-efficiency analysis of a distributed queuing medium access control protocol for biomedical wireless sensor networks in saturation conditions

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1277-1296

  Otal, Begonya ^a   Alonso, Luis ^b   Verikoukis, Christos ^c  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; THERMODYNAMICS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79952079862     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110201277     Document Type: Article

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