A review of routing protocols in wireless body area networks

Journal of Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 559-575

  Movassaghi, Samaneh ^a   Abolhasan, Mehran ^a   Lipman, Justin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

BANs; Body area networks; IEEE 802.15.6; Mobile ad hoc networks; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BANS; BODY AREA NETWORK; IEEE 802.15.6; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MEMS; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ROUTING PROTOCOLS;

EID: 84875707836     PISSN: 17962056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jnw.8.3.559-575     Document Type: Article

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