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http://dx.doi.org/10.5369/JSST.2010.19.4.297

Design and evaluation of wireless sensor network routing protocolfor home healthcare  

Lee, Seung-Chul (Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School, Pukyong National University)
Seo, Yong-Su (Department of Electronic Engineering, Dongseo University)
Kwon, Tae-Ha (Department of Electronic Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Chung, Wan-Young (Department of Electronic Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of Sensor Science and Technology / v.19, no.4, 2010 , pp. 297-305 More about this Journal
Abstract
A home healthcare system based wireless sensor network, which can continuously monitor and manage the elderly's electrocardiogram(ECG) signal at any space at home without space limit is proposed. The communication coverage of wireless network is expended by multi-hop wireless sensor network. In order to send the elderly's ECG data wirelessly, a small size ECG sensor node was designed to forward the ECG data over multi-hop relay network. The packet acquired by mobile ECG node is transmitted through wireless intermediate nodes to base station for analyzing the packet reception rate. Modified minimum cost forwarding(MMCF) protocol and flooding protocol are designed and implemented to check the transmission efficiency of a packet in a wireless sensor network. The developed MMCF protocol shows an advantage of high reception rate by reduced network traffic.
Keywords
tele-healthcare; healthcare monitoring; routing protocol; wireless sensor network;
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