A review on telemedicine-based WBAN framework for patient monitoring

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 619-626

  Chakraborty, Chinmay ^a   Gupta, Bharat ^a   Ghosh, Soumya K ^b  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks; Telemedicine; Wireless body area networks

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MICROELECTRONICS; PATIENT MONITORING; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORKS; EMBEDDED SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; RESEARCH ISSUES; TELEMEDICINE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

DEVICES; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; STANDARDS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

HUMANS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84899778096     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2012.0215     Document Type: Review

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