Towards key issues of disaster aid based on Wireless Body Area Networks

KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1014-1035

  Liu, Jianqi ^a   Wang, Qinruo ^b   Wan, Jiafu ^a,c   Xiong, Jianbin ^d   Zeng, Bi ^b  

^a Guangdong Jidian Polytechnic   (China)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Key Lab of Fault Diagnosis for Petrochemical Equipment of Guangdong   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud data storage; Disaster aid; Emergency response; Wireless body area networks; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SENSORS; CLOUD DATA; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY; SENSOR MINIATURIZATION; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BIOSENSORS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 84878463160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19767277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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