Abstract
In this paper, we study the problem of how to design a medicalgrade wireless LAN for healthcare facilities. Unlike IEEE 802.11e MAC, which categorizes traffic primarily by delay constraint, we prioritize medical applications into access categories according to medical criticality. We design a fully-distributed contention control mechanism that can efficiently utilize wireless channel for improving medical-grade QoS. We further derive a sufficient condition for the convergence of the proposed algorithm. Our simulation result shows that our medical access categorization and the contention control mechanism significantly improve the performance of a medical network over the conventional IEEE 802.11e MAC.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | WiMD 2009 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-Grade Wireless Networks, co-located with MobiHoc 2009 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 3-8 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781605585246 |
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| State | Published - 18 May 2009 |
| Event | 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-Grade Wireless Networks, WiMD 2009 - New Orleans, United States Duration: 18 May 2009 → … |
Publication series
| Name | WiMD 2009 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-Grade Wireless Networks, co-located with MobiHoc 2009 |
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Conference
| Conference | 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-Grade Wireless Networks, WiMD 2009 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | New Orleans |
| Period | 18/05/09 → … |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:Copyright 2009 ACM.
Keywords
- Contention control
- IEEE 802.11e
- Medical-grade QoS
- Wireless healthcare system