Evaluation of MAC Protocols for Vital Sign Monitoring within Smart Home Environment
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RESEARCH ARTICLE-COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Evaluation of MAC Protocols for Vital Sign Monitoring within Smart Home Environment Amjad Gawanmeh1,2 Ahmad Alomari4,5
· Negar Mohammadi-Koushki3 · Wathiq Mansoor1 · Hussain Al-Ahmad1 ·
Received: 4 February 2020 / Accepted: 29 August 2020 © King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals 2020
Abstract One of the appealing applications of smart home is remote monitoring of vital signs, such as heart and respiratory, which has gained more attention during the last two decades. The recent developments in IoT, sensing devices, and smart technologies increased the demand for such technology due to the need for devices that can continuously monitor physiological signals and offer further analysis and interpretations. Real-time monitoring systems record, measure, and monitor the vital sign activity for several reasons, such as early detection of heart problems, patient watching and athlete’s issues, This requires the use of MAC (medium access control) protocol which helps in the identification of several issues in the operation of medical sensors, such as traffic identification and sensing, collision detection, and the availability of free channels. In this paper, a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-based algorithm is proposed for the performance analysis of several MAC protocols that are intended for monitoring medical signal in the human body, such as vital signals. Five different protocols were analyzed according to several performance metrics using a quantitative ranking based on the proposed algorithm. The work concludes by suggesting a new protocol that combines the two most efficient ones and taking advantage of the features of each. Keywords Respiratory monitoring · Vital signs · MAC protocols · Performance evaluation
1 Introduction and Motivation The emerging of IoT devices and the development of sensors that are used for vital sign monitoring through personal networks have become an important research topic [1,2]. These systems enable the remote monitoring of people wearing portable devices or having sensors implanted, while it is equipped with network access. The sensed signals are transmitted to a local hub and then sent to a powerful gateway that can be used in medical centers for records keeping and
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Amjad Gawanmeh [email protected]
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College of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Dubai, Dubai, UAE
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
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Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Software Engineering, Université du Québec, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada
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SecureOps Inc., Montreal, Québec, Canada
analysis of the collected data, which allows long-distance health monitoring [3]. This requires the use of existing medium access control (MAC) protocols to enable sensors to work in this sensing–networking environment. Practically, the designer of sensors would use any standard protocol that s
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