A WLAN and ZigBee coexistence mechanism for wearable health monitoring system

Author

Huang, Min Li ; Park, Sin-Chong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol, Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

28-30 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

555

Lastpage

559

Abstract

The world is approaching a crisis: unprecedented population aging, rising chronic disease, and escalating health care cost. This calls for a new health care paradigm that embraces the wireless technologies. However, the integration of wireless technologies, such as IEEE 802.15.4 based ZigBee and IEEE 802.11b based Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) in the wearable health monitoring system is aggravated with significant interference issue. Existing coexistence mechanisms can not eradicate interference effectively. This degrades the performance of wearable health monitoring system significantly. Thus, we propose a collaborative coexistence scheme based on dynamic Guaranteed Time Slot (GTS) allocation with protective mechanism for the wearable health monitoring system.

Keywords

patient monitoring; telemedicine; wireless LAN; ZigBee coexistence mechanism; chronic disease; collaborative coexistence scheme; dynamic guaranteed time slot allocation; health care; wearable health monitoring system; wireless local area network; wireless technology; Aging; Biomedical monitoring; Collaboration; Costs; Degradation; Diseases; Interference; Medical services; Wireless LAN; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Information Technology, 2009. ISCIT 2009. 9th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Icheon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4521-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4522-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCIT.2009.5341185

Filename

5341185