Cooperative and low-power wireless sensor network for efficient body-centric communications in healthcare applications

Abstract

0.9, the cooperative scheme can provide the network with a link gain up to 14 dB traded off with an energy demand up to 30.7% higher and a data flow rate about 20% lower than a single-hop system. This work is a first exercise step in assessing reliability and life time trade-off with real-world platforms for body area sensor networks. Follow-up studies will address wireless ECG emulators with higher number of sensors (e.g. up to 10 for a typical 12-leads ECG system) employing ultra-low power chipsets in different specific health monitoring environments. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2013.