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On the QoS Support in Medium Access Control for Medical Sensor Networks

의료용 센서 네트워크에서 QoS 지원의 매체접속제어

  • Received : 2010.10.28
  • Accepted : 2010.12.30
  • Published : 2010.12.31
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Abstract

In line with the requirement of appropriate protocol support for such mission-critical wireless sensor network (WSN) applications as patient monitoring, we investigate the framework for designing medium access control (MAC) schemes. The data traffic in medical systems comes with inherent traffic heterogeneity as well as strict requirement of reliability according to the varied extents of devise-wise criticality in separate cases. This implies that the quality-of-Service (QoS) issues are very distinctly delicate requiring specialized consideration. Besides, there are features in such systems that can be exploited during the design of a MAC scheme. In a monitoring or routine surveillance application, there are degrees of regularity or predictability in traffic as coordinated from a node of central control. The coordinator thus takes on the role of marshaling the resources in a neighborhood of nodes deployed mostly for upstream traffic; in a collision-free scheme, it schedules the time slots for each superframe based on the QoS specifications. In this preliminary study, we identify the key artifacts of such a MAC scheme. We also present basic performance issues like the impact of superframe length on delay incurred, energy efficiency achieved in the network operation as obtained in a typical simulation setup based on this framework.

환자모니터링과같은 특수목적의 무선센서망에 요구되는 프로토콜과 연관하여 매체접속제어(MAC) 기법을 설계하기 위한 구조를 연구하였다. 의료시스템의 데이터는 엄격한 신뢰성이 요구되며 또한 본질적으로 비균질성의 트래픽 특성을 가지고 있다. 이러한 환경은 특별한 고려사항이 요구되어 미묘한 서비스 품질(QoS) 문제를 야기하게 된다. 의료용 혹은 감시시스템 등의 응용분야에서는 트래픽의 정규성 및 예측성이 어느 정도 보장이되어, 관리노드는 이웃 노드들의 자원을 관리할 수 있는 역할을 할 수 있다. 즉, 관리노드는 주어진 QoS 사양에 따라 충돌없이 타임 슬롯을 할당할 수 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 조건하에서 MAC의 핵심구조를 파악하고, 수퍼프레임 길이와 노드의 수에 따른 에너지 소비량 및 수율을 분석하였다.

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