Wireless technologies for Body Area Networks: Characteristics and challenges

2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 42-47

  Movassaghi, Samaneh ^a   Arab, Perzila ^b   Abolhasan, Mehran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BANs; Body Area Networks; IEEE 802.15.6

Indexed keywords

BANS; BODY AREA NETWORK; COVERAGE AREA; DATA RATES; FREQUENCY RANGES; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; IEEE 802.15.6; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84872144089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCIT.2012.6380936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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