Application specific study, analysis and classification of body area wireless sensor network applications

Computer Networks

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 363-380

  Nadeem, Adnan ^a   Hussain, Muhammad Azhar ^a   Owais, Obaidullah ^a   Salam, Abdul ^a   Iqbal, Sarwat ^a   Ahsan, Kamran ^a  

^a FEDERAL URDU UNIVERSITY OF ARTS   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Body area sensor networks; Classification of BASN applications; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; DIGITAL DEVICES; NETWORK LAYERS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORKS; ITS APPLICATIONS; NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY; PHYSICAL LAYERS; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; WEARABLE COMPUTING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84946499511     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2015.03.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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