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Scheduling schemes for Interference Suppression in Healthcare Sensor Networks
2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp.391-396
International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Sydney, NSW, Australia, 06/10/2014–06/14/2014)
2014
Abstract
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have the potential for extensive use in health care monitoring. To provide optimum network utilization, it is important to efficiently schedule multiple co-existing WBANs which could possibly suffer from high degree of interference. A graceful coexistence can be feasible by appropriately scheduling transmissions from different WBANs. In this paper, we use a recent standard of IEEE 802.15.6 (TG6), which has been finalized in May 2012, to address the problems of intra and inter-WBAN interference. This standard offers several advantages for medical applications as compared to IEEE 802.15.4 which has been previously adopted for numerous healthcare applications. In this paper, we propose a QoS based MAC scheduling approach to avoid inter-WBAN interference and introduce a fuzzy inference engine for intra-WBAN scheduling so as to avoid interference within WBANs.
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- Title
- Scheduling schemes for Interference Suppression in Healthcare Sensor Networks
- Publication Details
- 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp.391-396
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Conference
- International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Sydney, NSW, Australia, 06/10/2014–06/14/2014)
- Publisher
- IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated; United States
- Copyright
- © IEEE
- Identifiers
- 99380090308306600
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science; Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English