Energy Harvesting for Self-Sustainable Wireless Body Area Networks

IT Professional

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 32-40

  Akhtar, Fayaz ^a   Rehmani, Mubashir Husain ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Batteries; Biofuels; Body area networks; Electric potential; Energy harvesting; Energy management; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SOLAR CELLS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BATTERY REPLACEMENTS; BODY AREA NETWORK; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERVASIVE SENSOR NETWORKS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 85018764115     PISSN: 15209202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MITP.2017.34     Document Type: Article

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