Body Sensor Networks: In the Era of Big Data and beyond

IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue , 2015, Pages 4-16

  Poon, Carmen C Y ^a   Lo, Benny P L ^b   Yuce, Mehmet Rasit ^c   Alomainy, Akram ^d   Hao, Yang ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; body area network; cooperative networks; embedded systems; network security; wearable antenna; wearable devices

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIG DATA; DATA COMPRESSION; DECISION MAKING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NETWORK SECURITY; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); POWER MANAGEMENT; POWER MANAGEMENT (TELECOMMUNICATION); RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; WEARABLE ANTENNAS; WEARABLE SENSORS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS (BSN); COOPERATIVE NETWORKS; ENERGY-AWARE NETWORKS; OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE; REAL TIME DECISION-MAKING; THERAPEUTIC TREATMENTS; WEARABLE DEVICES;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; BODY SENSOR NETWORK; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; AMBULATORY MONITORING; COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; REMOTE SENSING;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84940037531     PISSN: 19373333     EISSN: 19411189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/RBME.2015.2427254     Document Type: Article

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