Medical body area networks: Opportunities, challenges and practices

11th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 562-567

  Fang, Gengfa ^a   Dutkiewicz, Eryk ^a   Huq, Mohammad A ^a   Vesilo, Rein ^a   Yang, Yihuai ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KUNMING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; CO-EXISTENCE; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; HIGH DATA RATE; HUMAN BODIES; NEW APPLICATIONS; NON-INVASIVE; RADIO PLATFORMS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; VITAL SIGNALS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEALTH CARE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84055176644     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCIT.2011.6089699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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