TY - GEN
T1 - An energy analysis of IEEE 802.15.6 scheduled access modes for medical applications
AU - Tachtatzis, Christos
AU - Di Franco, Fabio
AU - Tracey, David C.
AU - Timmons, Nick F.
AU - Morrison, Jim
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Medical body area networks will employ a range of implantable and body worn devices to support a wide range of applications with diverse QoS requirements. The IEEE 802.15.6 working group is developing a communications standard for low power devices operating on, in and around the body and medical devices are a key application area of the standard. The ISO/IEEE 11073 standard addresses medical device interoperability and specifies the required QoS for medical applications. This paper investigates the lifetime of devices using the scheduled access modes proposed by IEEE 802.15.6, while satisfying the throughput and latency constraints of the ISO/IEEE 11073 applications. It computes the optimum superframe structure and number of superframes that the device can sleep to achieve maximum lifetime. The results quantify the maximum expected achievable lifetime for these applications and show that scheduled access mode is not appropriate for all application classes such as those with intermittent transfer patterns.
AB - Medical body area networks will employ a range of implantable and body worn devices to support a wide range of applications with diverse QoS requirements. The IEEE 802.15.6 working group is developing a communications standard for low power devices operating on, in and around the body and medical devices are a key application area of the standard. The ISO/IEEE 11073 standard addresses medical device interoperability and specifies the required QoS for medical applications. This paper investigates the lifetime of devices using the scheduled access modes proposed by IEEE 802.15.6, while satisfying the throughput and latency constraints of the ISO/IEEE 11073 applications. It computes the optimum superframe structure and number of superframes that the device can sleep to achieve maximum lifetime. The results quantify the maximum expected achievable lifetime for these applications and show that scheduled access mode is not appropriate for all application classes such as those with intermittent transfer patterns.
KW - Energy Analysis
KW - IEEE 11073
KW - IEEE 802.15.6
KW - Scheduled Allocations
KW - Wireless Body Area Network
KW - Wireless Medical Applications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869593607&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-29096-1_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-29096-1_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869593607
SN - 9783642290954
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
SP - 209
EP - 222
BT - Ad Hoc Networks - Third International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2011, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 3rd International ICST Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, ADHOCNETS 2011
Y2 - 21 September 2011 through 23 September 2011
ER -