Evaluation of the impact of the topology and hidden nodes in the performance of a ZigBee network

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 24 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 256-271

  Fernández López, Helena ^a   Macedo, Pedro ^a   Afonso, José A ^a   Correia, J H ^a   Simões, Ricardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

Author keywords

E Health; Remote vital signs monitoring; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

802.11 A/B/G; DELIVERY RATIO; EHEALTH; HEALTHCARE FACILITY; HIDDEN NODES; IEEE 802.15.4; LOW POWER; PROPRIETARY PROTOCOLS; SCALABILITY PROBLEMS; SIMULATION RESULT; STAR NETWORK; STAR TOPOLOGY; TRAFFIC LOADS; TREE TOPOLOGY; TREE-BASED NETWORKS; VITAL SIGN; WIRELESS SENSOR; WIRELESS SENSORS NETWORKS; ZIGBEE; ZIGBEE NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; HEALTH CARE; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PLANT EXTRACTS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; STANDARDS; STARS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TOPOLOGY;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84885886668     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11528-8_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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