Challenges and implications of using ultrasonic communications in intra-body area networks

2012 9th Annual Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 182-189

  Galluccio, Laura ^b   Melodia, Tommaso ^a   Palazzo, Sergio ^b   Santagati, Giuseppe Enrico ^b  

^a State University of New York ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL SENSORS; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY TISSUES; HUMAN BODIES; IMPLANTED DEVICE; INTERCONNECTING DEVICE; LOW POWER; MEDIUM ACCESS; PARADIGM SHIFTS; PHYSICAL MEDIUM; PROTOCOL STACK; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RF PROPAGATION; TRANSMISSION FREQUENCIES; TRANSMISSION POWER; TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES; UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOSENSORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); TISSUE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84857890442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WONS.2012.6152227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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