PMID- 23193313
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140501
LR  - 20131119
IS  - 2168-2208 (Electronic)
IS  - 2168-2194 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 1
DP  - 2013 Jan
TI  - Realization of public m-Health service in license-free spectrum.
PG  - 19-29
LID - 10.1109/TITB.2012.2227117 [doi]
AB  - Public m-health is a new medical service under intensive development, which 
      provides unobtrusive monitoring of peoples health conditions from anywhere at any 
      time to enable detection of deteriorating health conditions before severe 
      discomfort or disability occur. A key challenge in practical implementation of 
      public m-health is the use of shared licensefree spectrum by Body Area Networks 
      (BANs) to report sampled vital signs continuously and in real-time. A cognitive 
      medium access control method called Centralized Body Area Network Access Scheme 
      (CBAS) is proposed in this paper to reduce access delay in a BAN in the presence 
      of coexistent systems. By opportunistic extraction of idle spaces from a pool of 
      orthogonal channels, CBAS dynamically adjusts a BANs channel access pattern 
      according to the current interference environment, and improves the BANs 
      visibility among coexistent networks. Performance of a BAN under CBAS is analyzed 
      by modeling the system as a preemptive-resume priority queue. Numerical and 
      simulation results show that the queuing-delay and throughput of a BAN employing 
      CBAS outperforms those of a BAN that utilizes a single channel statically, as 
      channel access opportunities suffer less fragmentations and interruptions.
FAU - Torabi, N
AU  - Torabi N
FAU - Leung, V C M
AU  - Leung VC
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20121115
PL  - United States
TA  - IEEE J Biomed Health Inform
JT  - IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
JID - 101604520
SB  - IM
MH  - Computer Simulation
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
MH  - Monitoring, Ambulatory/*methods
MH  - Public Health
MH  - Remote Sensing Technology/*methods
MH  - Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
MH  - Telemedicine/*methods
EDAT- 2012/11/30 06:00
MHDA- 2014/05/03 06:00
CRDT- 2012/11/30 06:00
PHST- 2012/11/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/11/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/05/03 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1109/TITB.2012.2227117 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2013 Jan;17(1):19-29. doi: 
      10.1109/TITB.2012.2227117. Epub 2012 Nov 15.