A robust protocol stack for multi-hop wireless body area networks with transmit power adaptation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 77-83

  Nabi, Majid ^a   Basten, Twan ^a,b   Geilen, Marc ^a   Blagojevic, Milos ^a,b   Hendriks, Teun ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b EMBEDDED SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

body area network; dynamic adaptation; gossiping; medium access control; quality of service; wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; DYNAMIC ADAPTATIONS; FAST DATA TRANSMISSION; GOSSIPING; HEALTH MONITORING; HUMAN BODIES; LOW ENERGIES; LOW QUALITIES; MULTI-HOP PROTOCOLS; MULTIHOP; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ON-BODY; ROBUST PROTOCOL; RUNTIMES; TIME VARIANT; TRANSMISSION RANGES; TRANSMIT POWER; ULTRA LOW POWER; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS LINK;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); QUALITY OF SERVICE; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84862695192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2221924.2221941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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