Cooperative scheduling for coexisting body area networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 123-133

  Wang, Lusheng ^a   Goursaud, Claire ^c   Nikaein, Navid ^b   Cottatellucci, Laura ^b   Gorce, Jean Marie ^c  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c EURECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Body area network (BAN); combinatorial optimization; cooperative scheduling; game theory; Tian Ji horse racing

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE SCHEDULING; DAILY LIVES; LOW COMPLEXITY ALGORITHM; MIXED STRATEGY; NASH EQUILIBRIA; PACKET RECEPTION RATE; SMALL AREA; SUB-PROBLEMS; TIAN JI HORSE RACING; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; GAME THEORY; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SCHEDULING;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84873078949     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.120412.112073     Document Type: Article

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