Title :
A WLAN and Bluetooth Coexistence Mechanism for Health Monitoring System
Author :
Huang, M.L. ; Lee, S. ; Park, S.-C.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng., Inf. & Commun. Univ., Daejeon
Abstract :
The rise in world´s aging population and escalating healthcare cost, necessitate directed research on new health monitoring paradigms. Upcoming health monitoring systems require the integration of heterogeneous wireless technologies, to achieve an ´anytime and anywhere´ medical environment. The use of well established wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN (WLAN) in medical environment, causes significant interference issue. However, existing coexistence mechanisms can not eradicate interference effectively and thus degrade the health monitoring system performances significantly. Therefore, an adaptive coexistence mechanism based on probabilistic packet scheduling with Quality-of-Service (QoS) provision is proposed in this paper.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; biomedical communication; patient monitoring; quality of service; wireless LAN; Bluetooth coexistence mechanism; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN; QoS; WLAN coexistence mechanism; adaptive coexistence mechanism; health monitoring system; heterogeneous wireless technologies; probabilistic packet scheduling; quality-of-service provision; Aging; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Costs; Degradation; Interference; Medical services; Quality of service; Scheduling algorithm; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2308-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2309-5
DOI :
10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784800
