Wireless sensor networks in application to patients health monitoring

• Published in: 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE) pp. 94 - 98
• Main Authors: Rajba, Stanislaw, Raif, Pawel, Rajba, Teresa, Mahmud, Mufti
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-04-2013
• Subjects: Ad hoc networks; Hospitals; Mathematical model; Monitoring; Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages (PASTA system); probability of collision; Protocols; random control monitoring of hospital patients; Wireless networks; Wireless Sensor Network (WSN); Wireless sensor networks
• ISBN: 1467358827; 9781467358828
• DOI: 10.1109/CICARE.2013.6583075

This work presents an application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) of random access with one-way transmission to the monitoring of hospital patients. In the paper, we consider WSN single-hop network using one single radio frequency, such that all nodes are divided into several groups depending on the average time between the transmission due to the different state of health of patients. We apply the Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages (PASTA) to modeling of WSN. We present formula for the probability of collisions which has been verified by simulation studies of network.