Figure 9From: Impact of the environment and the topology on the performance of hierarchical body area networks3-tier hierarchical BANs with 16 sensor nodes (leaves): three possible configurations are considered. (a) Configuration A: seven leaves at each of the two relays (N1 = 7, N2 = 2); (b) Configuration B: three leaves at each of the four relays (N1 = 3, N2 = 4); and (c) Configuration C: one leaf at each of the eight relays (N1 = 1, N2 = 8).Back to article page