Title :
Improving Wireless Health Monitoring Using Incentive-Based Router Cooperation
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Inf. Syst., Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA
fDate :
5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Healthcare providers could use ad hoc networks to supplement the sometimes spotty and unreliable coverage of infrastructure-oriented wireless networks for patient monitoring. A proposed incentive-based approach encourages devices to cooperate as routers, significantly improving message delivery reliability.
Keywords :
health care; patient monitoring; radio networks; health care providers; incentive-based approach; incentive-based router cooperation; infrastructure-oriented wireless networks; message delivery reliability; patient monitoring; wireless health monitoring; Ad hoc networks; Biomedical monitoring; Condition monitoring; Costs; Hospitals; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Routing; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; healthcare monitoring; incentive-based routers;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2008.157
