Smart Border Routers for eHealthCare Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Shen, Wei ; Xu, Youzhi ; Xie, Donghua ; Zhang, Tingting ; Johansson, Alf

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. & Media Dept., Mid Sweden Univ., Sundsvall, Sweden

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

With advances in low-power and low-cost wireless and sensor technologies, using WSNs in eHealthCare system has yielded tremendous efforts in recent years. However, most of previous researches adopt a remote server to process large scale of health sensor data forwarded by gateways that allow for interconnecting WSNs to IP network. In this paper, we present a prototype of a smart 6LoWPAN border router aimed to locally make decisions of health states using a Hidden Markov Model and enable wireless E-health care sensor network to seamlessly connect with IP network.

Keywords

IP networks; health care; hidden Markov models; personal area networks; telecommunication network routing; wireless sensor networks; IP network; WSN; eHealthcare wireless sensor networks; gateways; health sensor data; health states; hidden Markov model; remote server; smart 6LoWPAN border router; wireless E-health care sensor network; Databases; Delay; IP networks; Logic gates; Senior citizens; Servers; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040606

Filename

6040606