IEEE 802.11 WLAN for medical-grade QoS

WiMD 2009 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-Grade Wireless Networks, co-located with MobiHoc 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-8

  Park, Kyung Joon ^a   Shrestha, Deepesh M ^b   Ko, Young Bae ^b   Vaidya, Nitin H ^a   Sha, Lui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Contention control; IEEE 802.11e; Medical grade QoS; Wireless healthcare system

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; STANDARDS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CONTENTION CONTROLS; DELAY CONSTRAINTS; DISTRIBUTED CONTENTION CONTROL MECHANISM; HEALTHCARE FACILITY; IEEE802.11E; MEDICAL GRADES; WIRELESS CHANNEL; WIRELESS HEALTHCARES;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 79958114025     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1540373.1540376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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