Body area networks: A survey

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-193

  Chen, Min ^a,b   Gonzalez, Sergio ^a   Vasilakos, Athanasios ^c   Cao, Huasong ^a   Leung, Victor C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Body area networks; Survey; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS; DATA LINK LAYER; DESIGN CHALLENGES; EMBEDDED COMPUTING; HEALTHCARE MONITORING; IMPLANTABLE BIOSENSORS; LOW POWER; PHYSICAL LAYERS; RADIO TECHNOLOGIES; SENSOR CIRCUITRY; SENSOR DEVICE; SENSOR MINIATURIZATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS SENSOR;

BIOSENSORS; DESIGN; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURVEYS; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79956094375     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-010-0260-8     Document Type: Review

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