Mobile device aided cooperative transmission for body area networks

Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks, BodyNets 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 65-70

  Yu, Rong ^a   Zhang, Yan ^b   Gao, Ruchao ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

bit error rate; body area network; cooperative transmission

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; HIGH SNR; HUMAN BODIES; LOW POWER; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING (MRC); MULTIPATH REFLECTIONS; NON-COOPERATIVE; POWER ALLOCATIONS; RAKE RECEIVER; TRANSMISSION POWER; TRANSMISSION RELIABILITY;

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE DEVICES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSORS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

TRANSMISSIONS;

EID: 84862679639     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2221924.2221939     Document Type: Conference Paper

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