On energy efficiency of cooperative communications in wireless body area network

2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1097-1101

  Huang, Xigang ^a,b   Shan, Hangguan ^a,c   Shen, Xuemin Sherman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Shenzhen Maritime Safety Administration   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL QUALITY; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HUMAN BODIES; OPTIMAL POWER ALLOCATION; OUTAGE PERFORMANCE; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PATH LOSS; POWER ALLOCATIONS; REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SIMULATION RESULT; STATE INFORMATION; TRANSMISSION SCHEMES; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

COMMUNICATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OUTAGES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79959322968     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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