Adaptive tuning of IEEE 802.11e EDCA for medical-grade QoS

Author

Sunghwa Son ; Kyung-Joon Park ; Park, Eun-Chan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Daegu Gyeongbuk Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daegu, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 July 2013

Firstpage

650

Lastpage

651

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an adaptive tuning algorithm for wireless medical applications to in order to meet medical-grade quality of service (QoS). The conventional IEEE 802.11e protocol is designed to satisfy a certain level of QoS, which is insufficient for medical-grade QoS. In the proposed algorithm, we adaptively tune the AIFS value of the IEEE 802.11e protocol for enhancing the overall network performance while providing the required medical-grade QoS. In our scenario, as representative applications, we consider medical alarms, ECG transmission, and TCP file transfer. We categorize these three applications according to their urgency. Then, we compare the performance of the proposed scheme with the conventional IEEE 802.11e protocol.

Keywords

biomedical communication; quality of service; transport protocols; wireless LAN; ECG transmission; IEEE 802.11e EDCA; IEEE 802.11e protocol; TCP file transfer; adaptive tuning algorithm; medical alarms; medical-grade QoS; medical-grade quality of service; wireless medical applications; Biomedical equipment; Electrocardiography; IEEE 802.11e Standard; Medical services; Protocols; Quality of service; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2013 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Da Nang

ISSN

2165-8528

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUFN.2013.6614899

Filename

6614899