Improving power efficiency in WBAN communication using wake up methods

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

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 303-317

  Marinkovic, Stevan ^a   Popovici, Emanuel ^b   Jovanov, Emil ^c  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ultra low power; Wake up radio; Wireless body area networks

Indexed keywords

IMPLANTABLE SENSORS; POWER-EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS; STRINGENT CONSTRAINTS; SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT; ULTRA LOW POWER; WAKE-UP RADIO; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; HEALTH CARE; SENSORS; WAKES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84897750228     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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