A survey of system architecture requirements for health care-based wireless sensor networks

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4875-4898

  Egbogah, Emeka E ^a   Fapojuwo, Abraham O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

End to end reliable transport protocols; Healthcare; MAC protocols; Network coding; Quality of service (QoS); Routing protocols; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

GENETIC PROCEDURES; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79957681696     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110504875     Document Type: Review

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