Efficient Data Transmission Scheme for Ubiquitous Healthcare Using Wireless Body Area Networks

  • Cecile Kateretse
  • Eui-Nam Huh
Conference paper
Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 181)

Abstract

Data generated by wireless body area network (WBAN), are heterogeneous as they have different characteristics in terms of priority, transmission rate, required bandwidth, tolerable packet loss, delay demands etc; thus transmitting them in uniform fashion is unsuitable. This paper proposes an efficient data transmission scheme which classifies and prioritizes data patients according to their current status and their diseases; also we utilize multiple paths routing between the coordinator and gateway to provide a solution satisfying the delay requirements of different data types. Finally, it’s shown that the proposed scheme is efficient for timely data transfer in WBAN.

Keywords

wireless body area network quality of service (QOS) priority multipath end-to-end delay 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Cecile Kateretse
    • 1
  • Eui-Nam Huh
    • 1
  1. 1.Internet Computing and Security Lab Department of Computer EngineeringKyung Hee UniversityGyeonggi-doKorea

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