Bandwidth allocation in view of EMI on medical equipments in healthcare monitoring systems

Author

Di Lin ; Labeau, Fabrice

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

13-15 June 2011

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

212

Abstract

To enhance the capacity of patients supported by in-hospital wireless monitoring systems, a bandwidth allocation scheme for the transmission of medical data in the WLAN is proposed. The problem of bandwidth allocation, subject to limited wireless bandwidth, quality of service (QoS) requirements of medical data transmission, and electromagnetic interference is modeled as an optimization problem. To solve this problem, we propose an algorithm based on genetic theory and analyze the computation time of this algorithm. Finally, based on this algorithm, we analyze the capacity of patients supported by the monitoring system.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; data communication; electromagnetic interference; genetic algorithms; health care; hospitals; medical administrative data processing; patient monitoring; quality of service; wireless LAN; EMI; QoS; WLAN; bandwidth allocation; electromagnetic interference; genetic theory; healthcare monitoring system; in-hospital wireless monitoring system; limited wireless bandwidth; medical data transmission; medical equipments; optimization problem; patient monitoring; quality of service; wireless local area networks; Bandwidth; Biomedical equipment; Electromagnetic interference; Medical services; Monitoring; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication; Wireless healthcare monitoring; dynamic programming; electromagnetic interference; genetic algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2011 13th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Columbia, MO

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-695-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-61284-696-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026747

Filename

6026747