A low-complexity medium access control framework for body sensor networks

Bo Wang1, Lei Wang, Bang-Yu Huang

  • 1Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, and the Key Lab of Biomedical Informatics and Health Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 518067, China.

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