Experimental analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 for on/off body communications

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2138-2142

  Amini, Navid ^a   Xu, Wenyao ^a   Li, Zhinan ^b   Huang, Ming Chun ^a   Sarrafzadeh, Majid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

body wearable sensor networks; received signal strenth; transmission power control; Zigbee

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DISTANCE; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; HIGH PRECISION; HUMAN BODIES; IEEE 802.15.4; OFF-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; ON-BODY; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PACKET ERROR RATES; PACKET RECEPTION RATE; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RECEIVED SIGNALS; RECEIVER NODES; TRANSMISSION POWER; TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS MODULE; ZIG-BEE;

EXPERIMENTS; RSS; SENSOR NETWORKS; STANDARDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84863260504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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