A novel medium access control protocol with low delay and traffic adaptivity for wireless body area networks

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1265-1275

  Li, Changle ^a   Hao, Binbin ^a   Zhang, Kun ^b   Liu, Yongjun ^b   Li, Jiandong ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.15.4; MAC; Superframe; WBAN

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; SIMULATION; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TELEMETRY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84856220949     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9682-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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