A lightweight inter-user interference mitigation method in Body Sensor Networks

International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 34-40

  Sun, Wen ^a   Ge, Yu ^b   Wong, Wai Choong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

body sensor network; inter user interference; interference mitigation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL UTILIZATION; CLOSE PROXIMITY; DETAILED DESIGN; HEALTH MONITORING; INTER-USER INTERFERENCE; INTERFERENCE MITIGATION; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; RELIABLE DATA TRANSMISSION; SYSTEM UTILIZATION;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOBILE COMPUTING;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

EID: 84872069560     PISSN: 21619646     EISSN: 21619654     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WiMOB.2012.6379098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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