A Review of Protocol Implementations and Energy Efficient Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Body Area Networks.docVIP

Sensors 2012, 12, 14730-14773; doi:10.3390/s121114730 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Review A Review of Protocol Implementations and Energy Efficient Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Body Area Networks Laurie Hughes 1, Xinheng Wang 2,* and Tao Chen 3 1 College of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK; E-Mail: 515702@swansea.ac.uk 2 School of Computing, University of the West Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, Scotland, UK 3 Chigoo Interactive Technologies Ltd, Wuxi 214028, China; E-Mail: chent@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: xinh