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This work was partially supported by National Funds through FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) and by ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) through COMPETE (Operational Programme ’Thematic Factors of Competitiveness’), within project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-037281 (CISTER) and by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (ON.2 – O Novo Norte), under the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and FCT, within project ref. NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000063 (BESTCASE, New Frontiers). We would like to thank the Editor-in-Chief for giving us the opportunity to organize this special issue. We would also like to thank the Springer staff and all the reviewers, without them this special issue would not have been successfully executed.
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Ullah, S., Li, C. Energy-efficient MAC protocols for WBANs: Opportunities and challenges. Telecommun Syst 58, 109–110 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-014-9896-1
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