Optimised priority assignment mechanism for biomedical wireless sensor networks

IET Wireless Sensor Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 92-102

  Raza, I ^a   Chaudhry, S R ^b   Hussain, S A ^a   Abid, S A ^c   Raza, H ^d  

^a Lahore Campus   (Pakistan)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE THROUGHPUT; CURRENT SCHEMES; DATA FLOW; DATA PACKET; END TO END DELAY; END-TO-END QUALITY OF SERVICE; FLOW BYES; PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT; QUEUING DELAY; ROUTING SERVICES; TRANSMISSION SCHEMES;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84870268092     PISSN: 20436386     EISSN: 20436394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-wss.2011.0061     Document Type: Article

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