Reactive virtual coordinate routing protocol for body sensor networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3388-3393

  Zhang, Qi ^a   Kortermand, Kim ^b   Jacobsen, Rune Hylsberg ^a   Toftegaard, Thomas S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ProInnovation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBER OF HOPS; BODY MOVEMENTS; DYNAMIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FORWARD PACKETS; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN BODIES; LINK FAILURES; LINK QUALITY; PACKET DELIVERY RATIO; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; TRANSMISSION POWER; VIRTUAL COORDINATES;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; RADIO WAVES;

ROUTING PROTOCOLS;

EID: 84871989534     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6363917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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