On QoS provisioning in context-aware wireless sensor networks for healthcare

Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Souil, Marion ^a   Bouabdallah, Abdelmadjid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Healthcare; Quality of Service; Wireless Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH STATUS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HIGH RELIABILITY; HOME AUTOMATION; HUMAN BEING; NETWORK OVERLOADS; PERVASIVE HEALTHCARE APPLICATION; QOS MECHANISMS; QOS PROVISIONING; QOS REQUIREMENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH ISSUES; WIRELESS SENSOR;

HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MULTIUSER DETECTION; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SENSORS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 80053007654     PISSN: 10952055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN.2011.6005777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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