Hybrid network combining PLC and IEEE802.16 for hospital environment

Author

Wang, Peng ; Marshell, Alison ; Noordin, Kamarul A. ; Huo, Xufeng ; Markarian, Garik

Author_Institution

Keyworth Inst., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

28-31 March 2010

Firstpage

267

Lastpage

272

Abstract

This paper presents a novel hospital network which delivers broadband with Quality of Service (QoS) guaranteed by IEEE 802.16/WiMAX and Power Line Communication (PLC) systems. Through the utilization of the QoS features of IEEE 802.16 and PLC systems jointly, the proposed system enables simultaneous transmission of various types of medical data traffic while remaining the advantages of operation flexibility and low deployment cost. Performance is evaluated to demonstrate that the proposed network not only provides throughput guarantee, but also considers QoS requirement of the medical applications.

Keywords

WiMax; biomedical communication; hospitals; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; telecommunication transmission lines; IEEE802.16; PLC; QoS; WiMAX; hospital environment; hybrid network; medical data traffic; quality of service; Biomedical equipment; Costs; Hospitals; Medical services; Power line communications; Programmable control; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; WiMAX; IEEE 802.16; Media Access Control (MAC); Power Line Communication (PLC); Quality of Service (QoS); WiMAX; eHealth; scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5009-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5010-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPLC.2010.5479883

Filename

5479883