A scalable, 2.9 mW, 1 Mb/s e-textiles body area network transceiver with remotely-powered nodes and bi-directional data communication

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1995-2004

  Desai, Nachiket ^a   Yoo, Jerald ^b   Chandrakasan, Anantha P ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Body area networks; continuous health monitoring; e textiles; inductive links; integrated medium access protocol; wireless power delivery

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FAULT TOLERANCE; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSOR NODES; TRANSCEIVERS;

BODYAREA NETWORKS (BAN); E-TEXTILES; HEALTH MONITORING; INDUCTIVE LINK; MEDIUM ACCESS PROTOCOL; WIRELESS POWER DELIVERY;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84906950858     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2328343     Document Type: Article

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