Energy-efficient, heterogeneous sensor selection for physical activity detection in wireless body area networks

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1581-1594

  Zois, Daphney Stavroula ^a   Levorato, Marco ^a   Mitra, Urbashi ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithms; body sensor networks; controlled sensing; dynamic sensor selection; energy efficient tracking; heterogeneous resource management; partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP); physical activity detection; stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED SENSING; DYNAMIC SENSOR; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; HEALTH CARE; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84874991683     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2012.2236320     Document Type: Article

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