A WLAN and Bluetooth Coexistence Mechanism for Health Monitoring System

Author

Huang, M.L. ; Lee, S. ; Park, S.-C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Inf. & Commun. Univ., Daejeon

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The rise in world´s aging population and escalating healthcare cost, necessitate directed research on new health monitoring paradigms. Upcoming health monitoring systems require the integration of heterogeneous wireless technologies, to achieve an ´anytime and anywhere´ medical environment. The use of well established wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN (WLAN) in medical environment, causes significant interference issue. However, existing coexistence mechanisms can not eradicate interference effectively and thus degrade the health monitoring system performances significantly. Therefore, an adaptive coexistence mechanism based on probabilistic packet scheduling with Quality-of-Service (QoS) provision is proposed in this paper.

Keywords

Bluetooth; biomedical communication; patient monitoring; quality of service; wireless LAN; Bluetooth coexistence mechanism; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN; QoS; WLAN coexistence mechanism; adaptive coexistence mechanism; health monitoring system; heterogeneous wireless technologies; probabilistic packet scheduling; quality-of-service provision; Aging; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Costs; Degradation; Interference; Medical services; Quality of service; Scheduling algorithm; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2308-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2309-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784800

Filename

4784800