MP-HA: Multicycles protocol for hospital automation over multicast addressing

This paper presents a Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation (MP-HA) that works over multicast addressing and uses a Master-Slave architecture. The protocol creates a segmented logical network based on multicast addressing associated to hospital beds. The objective of MP-HA is to ensure the de...

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Published in:2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2008-01, p.1498-1501
Main Authors: de M. Valentim, Ricardo A., Morais, Antonio H. F., Brandao, Glaucio B., Guerreiro, Ana M. G., Xavier, Marcelo A., Junior, Helio B. A., Bezerra, Heitor U., Florentino, Gustavo H. P., Paz de Araujo, Carlos A.
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Language:English
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Summary:This paper presents a Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation (MP-HA) that works over multicast addressing and uses a Master-Slave architecture. The protocol creates a segmented logical network based on multicast addressing associated to hospital beds. The objective of MP-HA is to ensure the determinism on network through medium access control mechanism increasing the transmission throughput. Thus, it creates a periodical environment making use of parallel cycles which is called multicycles.
ISSN:1094-687X
1558-4615
DOI:10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649452