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Lightweight medical BodyNets

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Hyduke Noshadi,

Hagop Hagopian,

Tammara Massey,

Majid SarrafzadehAuthors Info & Claims

BodyNets '07: Proceedings of the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks

Article No.: 20, Pages 1 - 8

Published: 11 June 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Body area networks are becoming more and more popular in addressing health care application due to advances in sensing technologies and the fact the these networks lie within close proximity of the body. We have developed a general purpose wearable platform using lightweight embedded system to address various medical applications. This architecture is composed of tiny processors/microcontrollers equipped with non-invasive sensors. In addition, an on-body terminal enables the system to be reconfigurable and to communicate with medical enterprises. Since our architecture is made of software programmable blocks, it becomes a reconfigurable system. We introduce different levels of reconfiguration for body area networks and illustrate how reconfiguration can address several design challenges such as adaptability, reliability and power consumption. Finally, we formulate sampling rate assignment as a means of power reduction while meeting performance specification. Through our formulation, power dissipation can be minimized and at the same time, the desired accuracy of the system is achieved.

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Thatte GRozgic VLi MGhosh SMitra UNarayanan SAnnavaram MSpruijt-Metz DKaiser W(2009)Optimal time-resource allocation for activity-detection via multimodal sensingProceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Body Area Networks10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2009.6030(1-8)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2009
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BodyNets '07: Proceedings of the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks

June 2007

143 pages

ISBN:9789630621939

General Chair:
Romano Fantacci
University of Florence, Italy

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Published: 11 June 2007

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Jiang SXue YGiani ABajcsy R(2009)Providing QoS support for wireless remote healthcare systemProceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Multimedia and Expo10.5555/1698924.1699350(1692-1695)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1698924.1699350
Thatte GRozgic VLi MGhosh SMitra UNarayanan SAnnavaram MSpruijt-Metz DKaiser W(2009)Optimal time-resource allocation for activity-detection via multimodal sensingProceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Body Area Networks10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2009.6030(1-8)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2009.6030
Dabiri FMassey TNoshadi HHagopian HLin CTan RSchmidt JSarrafzadeh M(2009)A Telehealth architecture for networked embedded systemsIEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine10.1109/TITB.2009.201324813:3(351-359)Online publication date: 1-May-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TITB.2009.2013248
Sarrafzadeh M(2008)What is Wireless Health?ACM SIGDA Newsletter10.1145/1862864.186286538:22(1-1)Online publication date: 15-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1862864.1862865
Sarrafzadeh M(2008)What is Wireless Health?ACM SIGDA Newsletter10.1145/1862861.186286238:21(1-1)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2008
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Sarrafzadeh M(2008)What is wireless health?ACM SIGDA Newsletter10.1145/1862858.186285938:20(1-1)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1862858.1862859

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