Body sensor networks: A holistic approach from silicon to users

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-106

  Calhoun, Benton H ^a   Lach, John ^a   Stankovic, John ^a   Wentzloff, David D ^b   Whitehouse, Kamin ^a   Barth, Adam T ^a   Brown, Jonathan K ^b   Li, Qiang ^a   Oh, Seunghyun ^b   Roberts, Nathan E ^b   Zhang, Yanqing ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks; channel modeling; CMOS; sub threshold; wakeup radio

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA FUSION; DYNAMICS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SILICON;

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS (BSNS); CHANNEL MODEL; LOW-LEVEL HARDWARE DESIGN; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SUBTHRESHOLD; WAKE-UP RADIO;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84155160711     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2161240     Document Type: Article

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