Enhancing the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC with dynamic GTS allocation for medical applications

2011 the 14th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications: Communications, Networking and Applications for the Internet of Things, WPMC'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Paso, Tuomas ^a   Makela, Juha Pekka ^a   Iinatti, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

DGTS; medium access control; WBAN; WPAN

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION; BIOMEDICAL MEASUREMENTS; CHANNEL RESOURCE; COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; CONFLICT FREE; DGTS; DYNAMIC SLOT ALLOCATION; EFFICIENT TREATMENT; END-DEVICES; GUARANTEED TIME SLOTS; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; IEEE 802.15.4; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; WAITING TIME; WBAN; WIRELESS CHANNEL; WIRELESS MONITORING SYSTEM; WPAN;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; HOSPITALS; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; STANDARDS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 83655183220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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