Opportunistic packet scheduling in body area networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6567 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 114-129

  Prabh, K Shashi ^a   Hauer, Jan Hinrich ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HIGH RELIABILITY; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN BODY MOVEMENT; OPPORTUNISTIC MAC PROTOCOLS; OPPORTUNISTIC PACKET SCHEDULING; PERIODIC FLUCTUATIONS; PERIODIC VARIATION; REAL WORLD DATA; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RELATIVE DISTANCES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; TRANSMISSION POWER; COMMUNICATION RELIABILITIES;

HEALTH CARE; SENSORS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; PACKET NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79952274358     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19186-2_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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