MBStar: A real-time communication protocol for wireless body area networks

Proceedings - Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 57-66

  Zhu, Xiuming ^a   Han, Song ^a   Huang, Pei Chi ^a   Mok, Aloysius K ^a   Chen, Deji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency; real time communication; Reliable; Wireless body area networks

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; AVERAGE NUMBERS; COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURES; COMMUNICATION SCHEDULING; EARLIEST DEADLINE FIRST; GLOBAL COMMUNICATION; HIGH FREQUENCY; LOW POWER; MAC LAYER; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION; RELIABLE; RETRANSMISSIONS; SECURE PROTOCOLS; STAR TOPOLOGY; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); NETWORK SECURITY; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 80053042435     PISSN: 10683070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECRTS.2011.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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