Adaptive and radio-agnostic QoS for body sensor networks

Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Zhou, Gang ^a   Li, Qiang ^b   Li, Jingyuan ^b   Wu, Yafeng ^b   Lin, Shan ^b   Lu, Jian ^b   Wan, Chieh Yih ^c   Yarvis, Mark D ^c   Stankovic, John A ^b  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c INTEL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive QoS; Asymmetric architecture; Bandwidth; Body sensor networks; Virtual MAC

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL IMPAIRMENT; DATA STREAM; DATA-COMMUNICATION; EFFECTIVE BANDWIDTH; FADING EFFECT; MAC PROTOCOL; PERFORMANCE STUDY; QOS REQUIREMENTS; REMAINING BANDWIDTH; RESOURCE-RICH; RESOURCE-SCHEDULING; RF INTERFERENCE; VIRTUAL MAC; WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS DEVICES; WIRELESS RESOURCES;

BANDWIDTH; FADING (RADIO); HEALTH CARE; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 82455192585     PISSN: 15399087     EISSN: 15583465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2043662.2043672     Document Type: Article

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