FRAMEWORK FOR QOS PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT ON BIOMEDICAL WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Carlos Abreu, Manuel Ricardo, Paulo Mendes

2012

Abstract

A Biomedical Wireless Sensor Network (BWSN) is a special Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) with a small number of nodes designed for medical applications. These networks must ensure that medical data is delivered reliably and efficiently, in order to fulfil a set of pre-established Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. In this way, the research community have been proposing new solutions to improve QoS in WSN, namely in routing protocols and power consumption efficiency. However, there still a need for appropriate QoS guaranties in BWSN. In this paper, possible QoS requirements of BWSN are discussed, together with a framework to automatically evaluate the performance of such QoS techniques. That framework was used together with simulators and operating systems appropriate for WSN, COOJA and Contiki OS, and proved to be a valuable tool for a proper evaluation of QoS parameters and metrics.

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Abreu C., Ricardo M. and Mendes P. (2012). FRAMEWORK FOR QOS PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT ON BIOMEDICAL WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-91-1, pages 99-103. DOI: 10.5220/0003706800990103


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices12,
author={Carlos Abreu and Manuel Ricardo and Paulo Mendes},
title={FRAMEWORK FOR QOS PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT ON BIOMEDICAL WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={99-103},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003706800990103},
isbn={978-989-8425-91-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - FRAMEWORK FOR QOS PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT ON BIOMEDICAL WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
SN - 978-989-8425-91-1
AU - Abreu C.
AU - Ricardo M.
AU - Mendes P.
PY - 2012
SP - 99
EP - 103
DO - 10.5220/0003706800990103