Adaptive routing for dynamic on-body wireless sensor networks

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 549-558

  Maskooki, Arash ^a   Soh, Cheong Boon ^a   Gunawan, Erry ^a   Low, Kay Soon ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaptive routing; bit error rate (BER) analysis; body area networks (BANs); dynamic channel modeling; indoor communications; radio channel; routing; wireless body sensor network routing; wireless networks; wireless system modeling

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NETWORK ROUTING; POWER MANAGEMENT (TELECOMMUNICATION); RADIO COMMUNICATION; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ADAPTIVE ROUTING; BODY AREA NETWORK; DYNAMIC CHANNEL MODELING; INDOOR COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO CHANNELS; ROUTING; WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORK; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84924707160     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: 21682208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2014.2313343     Document Type: Article

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