Medium access control: Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation over multicast with IEEE 802.3

Author

de M.Valentim, R.A. ; Morais, Antônio H F ; de A.Junior, H.B. ; Xavier, Marcelo A. ; Bezerra, Heitor U. ; De Souza, Vinícius S V ; de P.Amorim, L.G. ; Guerreiro, Ana M G ; Brandão, Gláucio B. ; De Araújo, Carlos A Paz

Author_Institution

Fed. Center of Technol. Educ. of Rio Grande do Norte(CEFET-RN), Rio Grande

fYear

2008

fDate

10-13 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1493

Lastpage

1498

Abstract

This paper presents a multicycles protocol for hospital automation (MP-HA) that works over multicast addressing and use 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 the parallel cycles which is called multicycles.

Keywords

access protocols; biomedical communication; local area networks; medical computing; multicast protocols; IEEE 802.3; hospital automation; hospital bed; logical network segmentation; master-slave architecture; medium access control; multicast addressing; multicycles protocol; Access protocols; Automation; Costs; Ethernet networks; Hospitals; Master-slave; Media Access Protocol; Multicast protocols; Springs; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2008. IECON 2008. 34th Annual Conference of IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1767-4

Electronic_ISBN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2008.4758174

Filename

4758174