A WLAN and Bluetooth coexistence mechanism for health monitoring system

Authors:
M. L. Huang;S. Lee;S.-C. Park
Affiliations:
School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, Daejeon, Korea;School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, Daejeon, Korea;School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, Daejeon, Korea
Venue:
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The rise in world's aging population and escalating healthcare cost, necessitate directed research on new health monitoring paradigms. Upcoming health monitoring systems require the integration of heterogeneous wireless technologies, to achieve an 'anytime and anywhere' medical environment. The use of well established wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN (WLAN) in medical environment, causes significant interference issue. However, existing coexistence mechanisms can not eradicate interference effectively and thus degrade the health monitoring system performances significantly. Therefore, an adaptive coexistence mechanism based on probabilistic packet scheduling with Quality-of-Service (QoS) provision is proposed in this paper.