Traffic models for medical wireless sensor networks

Author

Messier, G.G. ; Finvers, I.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Calgary Univ., Alta.

Volume

11

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

15

Abstract

Stochastic data traffic models for medical wireless sensor networks (WSN´s) are presented that represent the traffic generated by a single WSN node monitoring body temperature and electrocardiogram (ECG) data. The models are based on empirical data from public domain medical signal databases. In the interest of conserving energy, it is likely that some medical WSN nodes will employ source coding to reduce the amount of data that must be transmitted. As a result, traffic models are presented for nodes that use compression and nodes that do not.

Keywords

biothermics; electroencephalography; medical information systems; source coding; stochastic processes; telecommunication traffic; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; ECG; WSN; body temperature; electrocardiogram data; energy conservation; medical wireless sensor network; node monitoring; public domain medical signal database; source coding; stochastic data traffic model; traffic generation; Biomedical monitoring; Databases; Electrocardiography; Source coding; Stochastic processes; Telecommunication traffic; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Traffic control; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2007.061291

Filename

4114210