Energy efficiency and reliability in wireless biomedical implant systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 456-466

  Abouei, Jamshid ^a   Brown, J David ^c   Plataniotis, Konstantinos N ^b   Pasupathy, Subbarayan ^b  

^a YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; green modulation; medical implants; wireless body area networks (WBANs)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BIOMEDICAL IMPLANTS; CODING PARAMETERS; CONSTRAINED DEVICES; DUTY-CYCLING; EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY SAVING; FAST START-UP; GREEN MODULATION; HUMAN BODIES; IEEE 802.15.4; IMPLANTABLE SENSORS; MEDICAL IMPLANT COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES; MEDICAL IMPLANTS; MODULATION SCHEMES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OVER MODULATION; PHYSICAL LAYER STANDARDS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; POWER COSTS; POWER MANAGEMENTS; PROPAGATED SIGNALS; RATELESS CODES; SHIFT KEYING; UNCODED; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS IMPLANT;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; TISSUE; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARD; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY;

ADULT; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 79955669109     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2105497     Document Type: Article

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