Guest editorial introduction to the special section: 4G health-the long-term evolution of m-health

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Istepanaian, Robert S H ^a   Zhang, Y T ^b  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

4G mobile technologies; Body area network (BAN); E health; Internet of Things (IOT); Long term evolution (LTE); M health; Medical sensors; Personal area network (PAN); Telemedicine; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORKS; EHEALTH; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); LONG TERM EVOLUTION; MEDICAL SENSORS; MHEALTH; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS;

ANTENNAS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INTERNET; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO BROADCASTING; SENSORS; TELEMEDICINE; WIMAX;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER NETWORK; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; REMOTE SENSING; TELEMEDICINE;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HUMANS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84856814003     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2183269     Document Type: Review

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