PERFORMANCE OF SENSOR MAC PROTOCOLS FOR MEDICAL ICT USING IR-UWB TECHNOLOGY

Flavia Martelli, Leonardo Goratti, Jussi Haapola

2010

Abstract

In this paper the feasibility of contention-based medium access control (MAC) protocols using impulse radio technology for medical ICT scenarios is shown. The particular scenario refers to a hospital waiting room in which people enter wearing a number of sensors for continuous monitoring of health status. The evaluation of the feasibility is founded on the implementation of slotted Aloha (S-Aloha) and preamble sense multiple access (PSMA) MAC protocols, the physical layer characteristics and the non-coherent receiver scheme for impulse radio ultra wideband (IR-UWB) in the network simulator Opnet. Simulated throughput and delay performance under Poisson traffic assumption are compared with analytical results for validation purposes. The simulation of the medical scenario, not easily tractable by analysis, accounts for important characteristics like capture effect and different bit rates of the sensors that monitor various vital functions. The results show that the used MAC protocols are scalable within the scenario constraints and PSMA exhibits a better delay performance than S-Aloha.

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Martelli F., Goratti L. and Haapola J. (2010). PERFORMANCE OF SENSOR MAC PROTOCOLS FOR MEDICAL ICT USING IR-UWB TECHNOLOGY . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-016-0, pages 13-20. DOI: 10.5220/0002691300130020


in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf10,
author={Flavia Martelli and Leonardo Goratti and Jussi Haapola},
title={PERFORMANCE OF SENSOR MAC PROTOCOLS FOR MEDICAL ICT USING IR-UWB TECHNOLOGY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={13-20},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002691300130020},
isbn={978-989-674-016-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - PERFORMANCE OF SENSOR MAC PROTOCOLS FOR MEDICAL ICT USING IR-UWB TECHNOLOGY
SN - 978-989-674-016-0
AU - Martelli F.
AU - Goratti L.
AU - Haapola J.
PY - 2010
SP - 13
EP - 20
DO - 10.5220/0002691300130020