MedCOM: a communication protocol to transmit physiologic data reliably over a modem connection

Author

Van Oostrom, Johannes H. ; Courtemanche, Anthony J. ; Lampotang, Samsun

Author_Institution

Coll. of Med., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

272

Abstract

The authors designed and developed a communication protocol (MedCOM) specifically designed to transmit physiologic data over modem connections. MedCOM uses data packets of variable length, a checksum, and a positive acknowledge algorithm for reliability. MedCOM was tested with data generated by the Loral/UF Human Patient Simulator over a telephone link between Gainesville, FL and Orlando, FL. Link interruption tests show that MedCOM is reliable and that it has the ability to resynchronize a connection when synchronization is lost

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; data communication; medical computing; protocols; telephony; Gainesville; MedCOM; Orlando; checksum; communication protocol; connection resynchronization; link interruption tests; lost synchronization; modem connection; positive acknowledge algorithm; reliable physiologic data transmission; telephone link; variable length data packets; Back; Biomedical monitoring; Data security; Humans; Modems; Patient monitoring; Protocols; Telemedicine; Telephony; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.656949

Filename

656949