Authors: Mohamed Amine Kafi Jalel Ben Othman Miloud Bagaa Nadjib Badache
Publish Date: 2015/10/21
Volume: 39, Issue: 12, Pages: 189-
Abstract
Wearable computing is becoming a more and more attracting field in the last years thanks to the miniaturisation of electronic devices Wearable healthcare monitoring systems WHMS as an important client of wearable computing technology has gained a lot Indeed the wearable sensors and their surrounding healthcare applications bring a lot of benefits to patients elderly people and medical staff so facilitating their daily life quality But from a research point of view there is still work to accomplish in order to overcome the gap between hardware and software parts In this paper we target the problem of congestion control when all these healthcare sensed data have to reach the destination in a reliable manner that avoids repetitive transmission which wastes precious energy or leads to loss of important information in emergency cases too We propose a congestion control scheme CCS WHMS that ensures efficient and fair data delivery while used in the body wearable system part or in the multihop inter bodies wearable ones to get the destination As the congestion detection paradigm is very important in the control process we do experimental tests to compare between state of the art congestion detection methods using MICAz motes in order to choose the appropriate one for our scheme
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