Virtual groups for patient WBAN monitoring in medical environments

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 12 PART2, 2012, Pages 3238-3246

  Ivanov, Stepan ^a   Foley, Christopher ^a   Balasubramaniam, Sasitharan ^a   Botvich, Dmitri ^a  

^a Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adaptive routing; node cooperation; remote health monitoring; wireless body area networks (WBAN)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ROUTING; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR NETWORKS; FINE TUNING; GROUP FORMATIONS; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM; HIGH LEVEL POLICIES; MONITORING INFORMATION; MONITORING PROCESS; NODE COOPERATION; QUALITY OF DATA; REMOTE ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL GROUP; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NURSE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; QUALITY OF HEALTH MONITORING; SCORING SYSTEM; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84868095944     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2208110     Document Type: Article

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