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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2016

An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Medical Emergency Monitoring Body Sensor Networks.

Chongqing Zhang, Yinglong Wang, Yongquan Liang, Minglei Shu, Changfang Chen

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chongqing ZhangCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China. zhangchongqing@sdust.edu.cn.
Yinglong WangShandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Networks, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Jinan 250101, China. wangyl@sdas.org.
Yongquan LiangCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China. lyq@sdust.edu.cn.
Minglei ShuShandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Networks, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Jinan 250101, China. shuml@sdas.org.
Changfang ChenShandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Networks, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Jinan 250101, China. chenchf@sdas.org.
National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi · CNShandong University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical emergency monitoring body sensor networks (BSNs) monitor the occurrence of medical emergencies and are helpful for the daily care of the elderly and chronically ill people. Such BSNs are characterized by rare traffic when there is no emergency occurring, high real-time and reliable requirements of emergency data and demand for a fast wake-up mechanism for waking up all nodes when an emergency happens. A beacon-enabled MAC protocol is specially designed to meet the demands of medical emergency monitoring BSNs. The rarity of traffic is exploited to improve energy efficiency. By adopting a long superframe structure to avoid unnecessary beacons and allocating most of the superframe to be inactive periods, the duty cycle is reduced to an extremely low level to save energy. Short active time slots are interposed into the superframe and shared by all of the nodes to deliver the emergency data in a low-delay and reliable way to meet the real-time and reliable requirements. The interposition slots can also be used by the coordinator to broadcast network demands to wake-up all nodes in a low-delay and energy-efficient way. Experiments display that the proposed MAC protocol works well in BSNs with low emergency data traffic.

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Wireless TechnologyAgedComputer Communication NetworksEmergency Medical ServicesHumansMonitoring, Physiologicbody sensor networks (BSNs)energy efficientMAC protocolmedical emergency monitoring

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PMID26999145
PMCPMC4813960
OpenAlexW2301327872

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