Energy efficient communication in body area networks using collaborative communication in Rayleigh fading channel

Telecommunication Systems

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 357-370

  Ghani, Anwar ^a   Naqvi, Husnain Abbas ^a   Sher, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Zeeshan Shafi ^b   Khan, Imran ^a   Saqlain, Muhammad ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Institute of Signals   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Body area networks; Collaborative communication; Energy efficiency; Rayleigh fading channels

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FADING CHANNELS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORKS; COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS; FIGURES OF MERITS; SINGLE INPUT SINGLE OUTPUT SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION POWER; TRANSMITTED POWER;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84949987286     PISSN: 10184864     EISSN: 15729451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11235-015-0125-3     Document Type: Article

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