An integrated communications framework for context aware continuous monitoring with body sensor networks

Author

Chiti, Francesco ; Fantacci, Romano ; Archetti, Francesco ; Messina, Enza ; Toscani, Daniele

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Univ. of Florence, Florence

Volume

27

Issue

4

fYear

2009

fDate

5/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

379

Lastpage

386

Abstract

This paper deals with a wireless pervasive communication system to support advanced healthcare applications. The proposed system is based on an ad hoc interaction of mobile body sensor networks with independent wireless sensor networks already deployed within the environments in order to allow a continuous and context aware health monitoring for patients along their daily life scenarios with an unprecedented precision and flexibility of sensing. After an accurate protocol characterization, simulation results are provided, underlining remarkable performance with respect to existing solutions, for different mobility models and node density values.

Keywords

biomedical communication; body area networks; health care; mobile computing; advanced healthcare applications; body sensor networks; context aware continuous monitoring; context aware health monitoring; integrated communications framework; mobility models; node density values; protocol characterization; wireless pervasive communication system; Battery management systems; Body sensor networks; Context awareness; Energy management; Media Access Protocol; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Body Sensor Networks, Context Awareness, Communications Protocols, Localization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSAC.2009.090503

Filename

4909277