Quality of Service for IEEE 802.15.4-based Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Author

García, José Javier ; Falck, Thomas

Author_Institution

Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

1-3 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We present a novel mechanism intended to provide Quality of Service (QoS) for IEEE 802.15.4-based Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSN) used for pervasive healthcare applications. The mechanism was implemented and validated on the AquisGrain WBSN platform. Our results show that the QoS performance of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard can be considerably improved in terms of reliability and timeliness for intra-node as well as inter-node scenarios while keeping backward compatibility to ensure interoperability.

Keywords

Zigbee; body sensor networks; quality of service; telecommunication network reliability; AquisGrain WBSN platform; IEEE 802.15.4; QoS; interoperability; intranode reliability; pervasive healthcare; quality of service; wireless body sensor networks; Body sensor networks; Delay; Europe; Instruments; Medical services; Multiaccess communication; Quality of service; Radio transceivers; Wireless personal area networks; Wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4; QoS; Reliability; Timeliness; Wireless Body Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2009. PervasiveHealth 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-42-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-963-9799-30-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6054

Filename

5191156