Poster abstract: Reliable data collection from mobile users for real-time clinical monitoring

Author

Chipara, Octav ; Brooks, Christopher ; Bhattacharya, Sangeeta ; Lu, Chenyang ; Chamberlain, Roger ; Roman, Gruia-Catalin ; Bailey, Thomas C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Washington Univ. in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

13-16 April 2009

Firstpage

397

Lastpage

398

Abstract

Real-time patient monitoring is critical to early detection of clinical patient deterioration in general hospital wards. A key challenge in such applications is to reliably deliver sensor data from mobile patients. We present an empirical analysis on the reliability of data collection from wireless pulse oximeters attached to users. We observe that most packet loss occur from mobile users to their first-hop relays. Based on this insight we developed the dynamic relay association protocol (DRAP), a simple and effective mechanism for dynamically discovering the right relays to be used for forwarding data from mobile users.

Keywords

oximetry; patient monitoring; protocols; radio repeaters; telecommunication network reliability; wireless sensor networks; data collection; dynamic relay association protocol; first-hop relays; mobile users; packet loss; patient monitoring; real-time clinical monitoring; reliability; wireless pulse oximeter; Base stations; Computerized monitoring; Hospitals; Mobile computing; Network servers; Patient monitoring; Permission; Relays; Testing; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5108-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-60558-371-6

Type

conf

Filename

5211897