Routing analysis of wireless body area networks using path availability measurements

Proceedings - 2011 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 1380-1385

  Kortermand, Kim ^a   Jacobsen, Rune Hylsberg ^b   Toftegaard, Thomas Skjodeberg ^b  

^a ProInnovation   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

body sensor networks; radio link; routing protocols

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; DATAGRAMS; HOME ENVIRONMENT; INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING; LINK DYNAMICS; LINK QUALITY INDICATORS; METRIC EVALUATION; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; PATH AVAILABILITY; REAL TIME; ROUTING SCHEME; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; TEST CYCLES; TEST FRAMEWORK; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RADIO LINKS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84855796348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2011.6098622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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