A cyber physical test-bed for virtualization of RF access environment for body sensor network

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3826-3836

  He, Jie ^a   Geng, Yishuang ^b   Wan, Yadong ^a   Li, Shen ^b   Pahlavan, Kaveh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

body sensor network; Cyber physical test bed; environment virtualization; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS; BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE SIMULATION; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HARDWARE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PHYSICAL ADDRESSES;

EID: 84883341333     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2271721     Document Type: Article

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