Wireless body area networks: A survey

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1658-1686

  Movassaghi, Samaneh ^a   Abolhasan, Mehran ^a   Lipman, Justin ^b   Smith, David ^c,d   Jamalipour, Abbas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.15.6; Medium access control; Physical Layer; Routing; Wireless Body Area Networks; Wireless Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MEMS; NETWORK LAYERS; SENSOR NODES; STANDARDS; SURVEYS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

IEEE 802.15.6; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL-SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES; PHYSICAL LAYERS; ROUTING; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 84906788546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2013.121313.00064     Document Type: Article

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