A wireless communication platform for long-term health monitoring

Author

Dietterle, Daniel ; Ebert, Jean-Pierre ; Wagenknecht, Gerald ; Kraemer, Rolf

Author_Institution

Wireless Commun. Syst., IHP Microelectron. GmbH, Frankfurt

fYear

2006

fDate

13-17 March 2006

Lastpage

478

Abstract

Recent advances in wireless communication technology have opened the way for long-term health monitoring applications. In this paper, we introduce the BASUMA project, which develop novel biomedical sensors and a wireless communication platform that provides connectivity among these sensors. This enables new, intelligent medical applications. The design and implementation of the wireless medium access control (MAC) protocol is the major focus of this paper. We describe our work-in-progress on hardware/software co-design, in particular, our co-simulation framework for profiling and performance estimation

Keywords

access protocols; biosensors; hardware-software codesign; health care; telemedicine; BASUMA project; MAC protocol; biomedical sensor; hardware-software co-design; intelligent medical application; long-term health monitoring; wireless communication platform; wireless medium access control; Biomedical equipment; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Communications technology; Intelligent sensors; Media Access Protocol; Medical services; Wireless application protocol; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2006. PerCom Workshops 2006. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2520-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2006.25

Filename

1599030