Energy-efficient and reliability-driven cooperative communications in cognitive body area networks

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 733-744

  Yu, Rong ^a,b   Zhang, Yan ^c,d   Gao, Chen ^b   Huang, Chujia ^b   Gao, Ruchao ^b  

^a GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bit Error Rate (BER); Body Area Network (BAN); Cognitive and cooperative communications; Energy efficient; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORKS; CONSERVE ENERGY; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE MECHANISMS; COOPERATIVE RELAY; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HETEROGENOUS NETWORK; HIGH SNR; HUMAN BODIES; LOW POWER; NETWORK HETEROGENEITY; NON-COOPERATIVE; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY; TRANSMISSION POWER; TRANSMISSION RELIABILITY;

ANTENNAS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE DEVICES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RELIABILITY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84855685343     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-010-0273-3     Document Type: Article

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