@inproceedings{934acb963bf5478d9cd99c9de3361a71,
title = "IEEE 802.11 WLAN for medical-grade QoS",
abstract = "In this paper, we study the problem of how to design a medicalgrade wireless LAN for healthcare facilities. Unlike IEEE 802.11e MAC, which categorizes traffic primarily by delay constraint, we prioritize medical applications into access categories according to medical criticality. We design a fully-distributed contention control mechanism that can efficiently utilize wireless channel for improving medical-grade QoS. We further derive a sufficient condition for the convergence of the proposed algorithm. Our simulation result shows that our medical access categorization and the contention control mechanism significantly improve the performance of a medical network over the conventional IEEE 802.11e MAC.",
keywords = "Contention control, IEEE 802.11e, Medical-grade QoS, Wireless healthcare system",
author = "Park, {Kyung Joon} and Shrestha, {Deepesh M.} and Ko, {Young Bae} and Vaidya, {Nitin H.} and Lui Sha",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright 2009 ACM.; 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-Grade Wireless Networks, WiMD 2009 ; Conference date: 18-05-2009",
year = "2009",
month = may,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1145/1540373.1540376",
language = "English (US)",
series = "WiMD 2009 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-Grade Wireless Networks, co-located with MobiHoc 2009",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "3--8",
booktitle = "WiMD 2009 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-Grade Wireless Networks, co-located with MobiHoc 2009",
address = "United States",
}