Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, 2008. IECON 2008. 34th Annual Conference of IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1767-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1553-572X
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2008.4758174
