Interference evaluation of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b systems
Wireless Networks
Analysis of the contention access period of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Mutual interference analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.11b
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Clear channel assessment in integrated medical environments
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Wireless Telemedicine and Applications
A performance monitoring method for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Monitoring of Physiological Parameters from Multiple Patients Using Wireless Sensor Network
Journal of Medical Systems
Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11b Under Multiple IEEE 802.15.4 Interferences
WWIC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
Optimal beacon scheduling mechanisms using cluster identifier for healthcare application
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Experimental Study of the Impact of WLAN Interference on IEEE 802.15.4 Body Area Networks
EWSN '09 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
Enabling cognitive load-aware AR with rateless coding on a wearable network
Advances in Multimedia
IEEE 802.11 WLAN for medical-grade QoS
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Medical-grade wireless networks
End-to-end delay analysis of wireless ECG over cellular networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Medical-grade wireless networks
An Adaptive Beacon Scheduling Mechanism Using Power Control in Cluster-Tree WPANs
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
On PHY and MAC performance in body sensor networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing
Highly reliable energy-saving MAC for wireless body sensor networks in healthcare systems
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on wireless and pervasive communications for healthcare
Performance analysis of multi-hop sensor system for smart home network applications
WOCN'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks
A WLAN and Bluetooth coexistence mechanism for health monitoring system
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Performance monitoring and control in contention-based wireless sensor networks
ISWCS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
The design of wireless sleep EEG measurement system with asynchronous pervasive sensing
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Ad-hoc wireless body area network for augmented cognition sensors
FAC'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Foundations of augmented cognition
A WLAN and ZigBee coexistence mechanism for wearable health monitoring system
ISCIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Communications and information technologies
Wireless network of bipolar body electrodes
WONS'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Wireless on-demand network systems and services
A survey on wireless body area networks
Wireless Networks
Deploying wireless sensor networking technology in a rescue team context
REALWSN'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Real-world wireless sensor networks
Wireless-Sensor-Networks-based healthcare system: a survey on the view of communication paradigms
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
WWIC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
Pervasive communications in healthcare
Computer Communications
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) Design Techniques and Performance Evaluation
Journal of Medical Systems
Data Management within mHealth Environments: Patient Sensors, Mobile Devices, and Databases
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)
International Journal of Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering
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In this article, we discuss what wireless technologies can be used for medical applications and how well they perform in a healthcare/hospital environment. We consider the emerging low-rate Wireless Personal Area Network technology as specified in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.15.4 standard and evaluate its suitability to the medical environment. We focus on scalability issues and the need to support tens of communicating devices in a patient's hospital room. We evaluate the effect of packet segmentation and backoff parameter tuning to improve the overall network performance that is measured in terms of packet loss, goodput, and access delay. We also evaluate the performance of 802.15.4 devices under interference conditions caused by other 802.15.4 devices and by wireless local area networks using IEEE 802.11b.