Cooperative and low-power wireless sensor network for efficient body-centric communications in healthcare applications

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

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 351-360

  Di Bari, Raffaele ^a   Alomainy, Akram ^a   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body centric wireless communication; Co operative networks; Energy efficiency; Healthcare monitoring

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORKS; BODY-CENTRIC COMMUNICATIONS; BODY-CENTRIC WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; HEALTHCARE MONITORING; MULTI-HOP COOPERATIVE; PACKET DELIVERY RATIO;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; DATA TRANSFER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FLOW RATE; HEALTH CARE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ZIGBEE;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84897809741     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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