TY - GEN
T1 - Design of adaptive IEEE 802.11 WLAN in hospital environments
AU - Son, Sunghwa
AU - Park, Kyung Joon
AU - Park, Eun Chan
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, we propose an adaptive tuning scheme of IEEE 802.11 WLAN for healthcare applications. Our proposed method can significantly improve medical-grade quality of service (QoS) and network performance at the same time. Though the conventional IEEE 802.11e protocol supports a certain level of QoS, it does not provide medical-grade QoS due to its relative priority among different traffic classes. Our proposed scheme adaptively tunes the arbitrary inter frame space number (AIFSN) of the IEEE 802.11e protocol for enhancing the overall network performance while providing the required medical-grade QoS. In our healthcare scenario, we consider the following three medical traffic categories: medical alarm, real-time electrocardiogram (ECG) transmission, and TCP connection. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the performance of low-priority TCP traffic while protecting high-priority medical alarms from lower priority traffic.
AB - In this paper, we propose an adaptive tuning scheme of IEEE 802.11 WLAN for healthcare applications. Our proposed method can significantly improve medical-grade quality of service (QoS) and network performance at the same time. Though the conventional IEEE 802.11e protocol supports a certain level of QoS, it does not provide medical-grade QoS due to its relative priority among different traffic classes. Our proposed scheme adaptively tunes the arbitrary inter frame space number (AIFSN) of the IEEE 802.11e protocol for enhancing the overall network performance while providing the required medical-grade QoS. In our healthcare scenario, we consider the following three medical traffic categories: medical alarm, real-time electrocardiogram (ECG) transmission, and TCP connection. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the performance of low-priority TCP traffic while protecting high-priority medical alarms from lower priority traffic.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84894213592&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720771
DO - 10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720771
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84894213592
SN - 9781467358019
T3 - 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2013
SP - 722
EP - 724
BT - 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2013
Y2 - 9 October 2013 through 12 October 2013
ER -