A performance evaluation of cooperative schemes for on-body area networks based on measured time-variant channels

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  D'Errico, Raffaele ^a   Rosini, Ramona ^b   Maman, Mickael ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; COOPERATIVE SCHEMES; ON-BODY; PACKET ERROR RATES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RELAYING SCHEMES; TIME VARIANT CHANNELS;

EID: 80052171007     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icc.2011.5962980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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