Virtual groups for patient WBAN monitoring in medical environments

Ivanov, Stepan and Foley, Christopher and Balasubramaniam, Sasitharan and Botvich, Dmitri (2012) Virtual groups for patient WBAN monitoring in medical environments. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 59 (12 PAR). pp. 3238-3246. ISSN 0018-9294

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Abstract

Wireless body area networks (WBAN) provide a tremendous opportunity for remote health monitoring. However, engineering WBAN health monitoring systems encounters a number of challenges including efficient WBAN monitoring information extraction, dynamically fine tuning the monitoring process to suit the quality of data, and to allow the translation of high-level requirements of medical officers to low-level sensor reconfiguration. This paper addresses these challenges, by proposing an architecture that allows virtual groups to be formed between devices of patients, nurses, and doctors in order to enable remote analysis of WBAN data. Group formation and modification is performed with respect to patients conditions and medical officers requirements, which could be easily adjusted through high-level policies. We also propose, a new metric called the Quality of Health Monitoring, which allows medical officers to provide feedback on the quality of WBAN data received. The WBAN data gathered are transmitted to the virtual group members through an underlying environmental sensor network. The proposed approach is evaluated through a series of simulation.

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Additional Information:	Funding Information: Manuscript received February 20, 2012; revised June 1, 2012; accepted June 28, 2012. Date of publication July 11, 2012; date of current version October 16, 2012. This work was supported by the Science Foundation Ireland under Grant 09/SIRG/I1643 (“A Biologically inspired framework supporting network management for the Future Internet”) and by the Higher Education Authority in Ireland under the PRTLI Cycle 4 programme, in the project FutureComm: Management of Future Communications Networks and Services. Asterisk indicates corresponding author.
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Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2022 23:05
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URI:	http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/4008

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