Design issues in ZigBee-based sensor network for healthcare applications

Jin Soo Choi, Meng Chu Zhou

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Abstract

IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee sensor networks support small power consumption and node expansion compared to other network standards for WSN. Body sensor networks (BSN) require a number of sensors for sensing medical information from human body, and low power consumption to monitor a patient's status for a long time. However, ZigBee has limited bandwidth and is thus hard to support real time data transmission because of the adoption of CSMA-CA as its medium access control (MAC) protocol. In this paper, we will analyze the reasonable number of nodes, size of payload and packet interval for best QoS for such network. It is found that an appropriate MAC parameters setting can improve the QoS compared to the default setting in IEEE 802.15.4 specification. The effective data rate, average end-to-end delay and packet delivery ratio are found via simulation for various network settings. The results are useful for the construction of ZigBee networks for patient monitoring and care.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2012 9th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2012
Pages238-243
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 9th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2012 - Beijing, China
Duration: Apr 11 2012Apr 14 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2012 9th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2012

Other

Other2012 9th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period4/11/124/14/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • Body sensor network
  • Healthcare
  • Medium access control
  • Sensor networks

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