Advances and challenges of wireless body area networks for healthcare applications

2012 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC'12

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 99-103

  Chin, Craig A ^a   Crosby, Garth V ^a   Ghosh, Tirthankar ^a   Murimi, Renita ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

body sensor network; healthcare; WBAN survey; Wireless body area network

Indexed keywords

FUTURE TRENDS; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; POWER EFFICIENT; RESEARCH ISSUES; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; SURVEYS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84859882322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCNC.2012.6167576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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