Wireless body area network for medical healthcare

IETE Technical Review (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India)

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 362-371

  Jain, Prem Chand ^a  

^a Centre for Development of Advanced Computing   (India)

Author keywords

Body sensors; Energy harvesting; Healthcare; Medical server; Personal server; Wireless network

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SENSORS; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY SENSORS; CRITICAL RESOURCES; HEALTH CONDITION; HUMAN BODIES; LONG DURATION; MEDICAL SERVER; PERSONAL SERVER; SENSING SYSTEMS; SYSTEM INTEGRATION; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

BIOSENSORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; HEALTH CARE; SENSORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 80052141903     PISSN: 02564602     EISSN: 09745971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4602.83556     Document Type: Article

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