Power allocation strategies to minimize energy consumption in wireless body area networks

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2204-2207

  Kailas, Aravind ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative communications; healthcare monitoring; m Health; wireless body area networks

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CONDITIONS; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; ENERGY EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS; ENERGY MODEL; ENERGY-PER-BIT; HEALTHCARE MONITORING; KEYPOINTS; LINK RELIABILITY; MHEALTH; MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEMS; NETWORK LIFETIME; ON-BODY; OPTIMAL POWER ALLOCATION; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; POWER ALLOCATION STRATEGIES; POWER ALLOCATIONS; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; SIMULATION-BASED; STATE INFORMATION; TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION USE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OUTAGES; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; INSTRUMENTATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84862246759     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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