Characterization of inter-body interference in context aware body area networking (CABAN)

2011 IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops, GC Wkshps 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 586-590

  Heaney, Sean F ^a   Scanlon, William G ^a   Garcia Palacios, E ^a   Cotton, Simon L ^a   McKernan, Adrian ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

body centric communications; bodynets; BSN; channel characterization; context awareness; interference; propagation

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODYNETS; BSN; CARRIER TO INTERFERENCE RATIO; CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; CO-LOCATED; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE; INTERCONNECTIVITY; INTERNETWORKING; LOCALISATION; NETWORK NODE; PHYSICAL LAYERS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; SAMPLING PERIOD; WIRELESS APPLICATION;

CHARACTERIZATION; COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); WAVE INTERFERENCE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84858376104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2011.6162519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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