Energy-aware topology design for wireless body area networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3409-3413

  Elias, Jocelyne ^a   Mehaoua, Ahmed ^a,b  

^a Huawei Technologies Co   (France)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Network Planning; Optimization; Relay placement; Routing; WBAN

Indexed keywords

CAN DESIGN; COMPUTING TIME; DATA ROUTING; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; NETWORK INSTALLATION COST; NETWORK LIFETIME; NETWORK PLANNING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PLANNING PROBLEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAY NODE; RELAY PLACEMENTS; ROUTING; TOPOLOGY DESIGN; TRAFFIC ROUTING; WBAN; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS SENSOR;

BIOSENSORS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEALTH CARE; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

NETWORK ROUTING;

EID: 84871956027     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6363949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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