A new patient monitoring framework and Energy-aware Peering Routing Protocol (EPR) for Body Area Network communication

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 409-423

  Khan, Zahoor A ^a   Sivakumar, Shyamala ^b   Phillips, William ^a   Aslam, Nauman ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BAN; Body Area Network; Energy aware Peering Routing Protocol; EPR; Hospital BAN communication; ZK BAN; ZK BAN peering framework

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HOSPITALS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; ROUTING PROTOCOLS;

BAN; BODY AREA NETWORK; ENERGY AWARE; ZK-BAN; ZK-BAN PEERING FRAMEWORK;

POWER MANAGEMENT (TELECOMMUNICATION);

EID: 84901637866     PISSN: 18685137     EISSN: 18685145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-013-0195-6     Document Type: Article

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