A novel hybrid network for hospital environment incorporating IEEE802.16 and HomePlug AV standards

Author

Wang, Peng ; Huo, Xufeng ; Markarian, Garik

Author_Institution

Keyworth Inst., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds

fYear

2008

fDate

2-4 April 2008

Firstpage

274

Lastpage

279

Abstract

In this article, a novel hybrid network architecture is proposed by incorporating the state-of-the art IEEE802.16 and HomePlug AV standard based systems. The proposed architecture allows overcoming limitations for using wireless devices and delivering nomadic broadband data communication services in hospital environment. Through the proposed Quality of Service (QoS) broker which jointly utilizes the QoS strategies in both the IEEE 802.16 and HomePlug AV systems, the end-to-end performance of simultaneous transmission of various types of medical data traffic such as patient´s video, diagnostic audio, electrocardiogram (ECG), and patient´s document files etc can be assured.

Keywords

IEEE standards; WiMax; biomedical communication; quality of service; telecommunication standards; HomePlug AV standards; IEEE802.16 standards; QoS; hospital environment; medical data traffic; nomadic broadband data communication services; quality of service; wireless devices; Broadband communication; Buildings; Electrocardiography; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Next generation networking; Programmable control; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; HomePlug AV; Hospital environment; Hybrid Broadband Network; IEEE802.16; Practical Results; QoS Broker;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Line Communications and Its Applications, 2008. ISPLC 2008. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Jeju city, Jeju Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1975-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1976-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPLC.2008.4510438

Filename

4510438