MP-HA: Multicycles protocol for hospital automation over multicast addressing

Author

de M.Valentim, Ricardo A. ; Morais, Antônio H F ; Brandão, Gláucio B. ; Guerreiro, Ana M G ; Xavier, Marcelo A. ; Junior, Helio B.A. ; Bezerra, Heitor U. ; Florentino, Gustavo H.P. ; De Araújo, Carlos A Paz

Author_Institution

Federal Center of Technological Education of Rio Grande do Norte (CEFET-RN), Brazil

fYear

2008

fDate

20-25 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

1498

Lastpage

1501

Abstract

This paper presents a Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation (MP-HA) that works over multicast addressing and uses a Master-Slave architecture. The protocol creates a segmented logical network based on multicast addressing associated to hospital beds. The objective of MP-HA is to ensure the determinism on network through medium access control mechanism increasing the transmission throughput. Thus, it creates a periodical environment making use of parallel cycles which is called multicycles.

Keywords

Access protocols; Automatic control; Automation; Educational technology; Ethernet networks; Hospitals; Industrial control; Multicast protocols; Process control; Time division multiple access; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Communication Networks; Hospital Communication Systems; Humans; Man-Machine Systems; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1814-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649452

Filename

4649452