1st International ICST Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile Health Care

Research Article

Continuous vs. Event Driven Routing Protocols for WSNs in Healthcare Environments

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361666,
        author={Debdhanit  Yupho and Joseph  Kabara},
        title={Continuous vs. Event Driven Routing Protocols for WSNs in Healthcare Environments},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile Health Care},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={PMHCS},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={Automatic control  Biomedical monitoring  Cities and towns  Control systems  Embedded computing  Medical control systems  Medical services  Patient monitoring  Routing protocols  Wireless sensor networks},
        doi={10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361666}
    }
    
  • Debdhanit Yupho
    Joseph Kabara
    Year: 2007
    Continuous vs. Event Driven Routing Protocols for WSNs in Healthcare Environments
    PMHCS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361666
Debdhanit Yupho1,*, Joseph Kabara1,*
  • 1: Graduate Program in Telecommunications and Networking, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260
*Contact email: dey5@pitt.edu, jkabara@pitt.edu

Abstract

Advances in embedded computing systems have resulted in the emergence of wireless sensor networks, which provide unique opportunities for monitoring and controlling homes, cities and the environments. Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been proposed for hospital/medical care environments to support automated data collection, which is then integrated into the patient care record system. However, wireless sensor networks are application specific, and routing protocols will vary in their ability to healthcare environments