On the performance of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4 radios in a body area network

BODYNETS 2008 - 3rd International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shah, Rahul C ^a   Nachman, Lama ^a   Wan, Chieh Yih ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Body area networks; Performance evaluation; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH; DISEASES; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; PHYSICAL LAYER; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; HAND HELD DEVICE; LOW POWER WIRELESS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERVASIVE SENSING; WSN APPLICATIONS;

IEEE STANDARDS;

EID: 85118316720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2008.2972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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