Title :
A WLAN and ZigBee coexistence mechanism for wearable health monitoring system
Author :
Huang, Min Li ; Park, Sin-Chong
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol, Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
The world is approaching a crisis: unprecedented population aging, rising chronic disease, and escalating health care cost. This calls for a new health care paradigm that embraces the wireless technologies. However, the integration of wireless technologies, such as IEEE 802.15.4 based ZigBee and IEEE 802.11b based Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) in the wearable health monitoring system is aggravated with significant interference issue. Existing coexistence mechanisms can not eradicate interference effectively. This degrades the performance of wearable health monitoring system significantly. Thus, we propose a collaborative coexistence scheme based on dynamic Guaranteed Time Slot (GTS) allocation with protective mechanism for the wearable health monitoring system.
Keywords :
patient monitoring; telemedicine; wireless LAN; ZigBee coexistence mechanism; chronic disease; collaborative coexistence scheme; dynamic guaranteed time slot allocation; health care; wearable health monitoring system; wireless local area network; wireless technology; Aging; Biomedical monitoring; Collaboration; Costs; Degradation; Diseases; Interference; Medical services; Wireless LAN; ZigBee;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Information Technology, 2009. ISCIT 2009. 9th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Icheon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4521-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4522-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISCIT.2009.5341185
