Challenges in body area networks for healthcare: The MAC

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 100-116

  Boulis, Athanassios ^a   Smith, David ^a,b   Miniutti, Dino ^a,b   Libman, Lavy ^a,c   Tselishchev, Yuriy ^a,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; NOVEL SOLUTIONS; UBIQUITOUS HEALTH CARE; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84860847382     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2012.6194389     Document Type: Article

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