Cooperative switched combining for wireless body area networks

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2275-2280

  Smith, David B ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECODE-AND-FORWARD PROTOCOLS; ON-BODY; OUTAGE PERFORMANCE; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SELECTION COMBINING; SENSOR LOCATION; SWITCH-AND-EXAMINE COMBINING (SEC); SWITCHED COMBINING; SWITCHING RATES; THREE-BRANCH; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES;

EID: 84871948108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2012.6362735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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