DocumentCode :
677507
Title :
The virtue of sharing: Efficient content delivery in Wireless Body Area Networks for ubiquitous healthcare
Author :
Min Chen ; Dung Ong Mau ; Xiaofei Wang ; Honggang Wang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
fYear :
2013
fDate :
9-12 Oct. 2013
Firstpage :
669
Lastpage :
673
Abstract :
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) includes a set of body sensor nodes which are placed around human body, collecting data while sending them to medical center. In order to deliver the body signal to remote terminals in timely fashion, an extended communication architecture dubbed “beyond-BAN communication” was proposed. However, existing architectures are not suitable for the scenarios with high mobility of both patients and physicians due to the fluctuation of wireless links. Furthermore, when the amount of healthcare content is large, the quality of delivery is hard to be guaranteed. To address these challenging issues, we propose a novel network architecture, which integrates WBAN with the Long Term Evolution (LTE) networking and Named Data Networking (NDN). The integration with LTE is to enlarge the radio coverage and guarantee the quality of wireless transmissions, while the integration with NDN is to leverage edge router caching technique to enhance the capacity of the WBAN coordinator, and to avoid the packets loss by adapting to dynamic wireless link conditions with the adaptive streaming technique. The experimental results conducted by OPNET Modeler prove that our solution improves the Quality of Service (QoS) performance of WBAN transmission significantly.
Keywords :
body area networks; health care; quality of service; radio links; ubiquitous computing; OPNET Modeler; QoS; WBAN transmission; adaptive streaming technique; beyond-BAN communication; body sensor nodes; edge router caching technique; efficient content delivery; human body; long term evolution networking; medical center; named data networking; quality of service; ubiquitous healthcare; wireless body area networks; wireless links; Adaptation models; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Logic gates; Medical services; Quality of service; Wireless communication; Zigbee; Named Data Networking; Ubiquitous Healthcare; Wireless Body Area Networks;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5800-2
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720760
Filename :
6720760
Link To Document :
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