QoS deployment in wireless e-health and e-emergency : main issues and a case-study

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Autor(a) principal: Gama, Oscar
Data de Publicação: 2008
Outros Autores: Carvalho, Paulo, Afonso, José A., Mendes, P. M.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/9340
Resumo: Due to its critical nature, emergency healthcare (e-emergency) systems should be totally reliable, efficient and support real-time traffic. Therefore eemergency networks must provide proper quality of service (QoS) levels. After assessing the relevance of QoS deployment in different e-health contexts, this paper presents a pragmatic case-study intended to be deployed in a hospital room containing patients with high risk abnormalities, whose vital signals are being monitored by personal wireless body sensor networks. After justifying the unsuitability of ZigBee standard in this e-emergency scenario, the use of Low-Power, Real-Time (LPRT) protocol for wireless sensor networks, is proposed as an adequate candidate for such task. For the present case-study, the protocol is able to fulfill quantitatively the required QoS levels.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv QoS deployment in wireless e-health and e-emergency : main issues and a case-study
title QoS deployment in wireless e-health and e-emergency : main issues and a case-study
spellingShingle QoS deployment in wireless e-health and e-emergency : main issues and a case-study
Gama, Oscar
e-health
e-emergency
WSN
QoS
title_short QoS deployment in wireless e-health and e-emergency : main issues and a case-study
title_full QoS deployment in wireless e-health and e-emergency : main issues and a case-study
title_fullStr QoS deployment in wireless e-health and e-emergency : main issues and a case-study
title_full_unstemmed QoS deployment in wireless e-health and e-emergency : main issues and a case-study
title_sort QoS deployment in wireless e-health and e-emergency : main issues and a case-study
author Gama, Oscar
author_facet Gama, Oscar
Carvalho, Paulo
Afonso, José A.
Mendes, P. M.
author_role author
author2 Carvalho, Paulo
Afonso, José A.
Mendes, P. M.
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Gama, Oscar
Carvalho, Paulo
Afonso, José A.
Mendes, P. M.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv e-health
e-emergency
WSN
QoS
topic e-health
e-emergency
WSN
QoS
description Due to its critical nature, emergency healthcare (e-emergency) systems should be totally reliable, efficient and support real-time traffic. Therefore eemergency networks must provide proper quality of service (QoS) levels. After assessing the relevance of QoS deployment in different e-health contexts, this paper presents a pragmatic case-study intended to be deployed in a hospital room containing patients with high risk abnormalities, whose vital signals are being monitored by personal wireless body sensor networks. After justifying the unsuitability of ZigBee standard in this e-emergency scenario, the use of Low-Power, Real-Time (LPRT) protocol for wireless sensor networks, is proposed as an adequate candidate for such task. For the present case-study, the protocol is able to fulfill quantitatively the required QoS levels.
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