BodyQoS: Adaptive and Radio-Agnostic QoS for Body Sensor Networks

—As wireless devices and sensors are increasingly deployed on people, researchers have begun to focus on wireless body-area networks. Applications of wireless body sensor networks include healthcare, entertainment, and personal assistance, in which sensors collect physiological and activity data from people and their environments. In these body sensor networks, quality of service is needed to provide reliable data communication over prioritized data streams. This paper proposes BodyQoS, the first running QoS system demonstrated on an emulated body sensor network. BodyQoS adopts an asymmetric architecture, in which most processing is done on a resource rich aggregator, minimizing the load on resource limited sensor nodes. A virtual MAC is developed in BodyQoS to make it radio-agnostic, allowing a BodyQoS to schedule wireless resources without knowing the implementation details of the underlying MAC protocols. Another unique property of BodyQoS is its ability to provide adaptive resou...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Gang Zhou, Jian Lu, Chieh-Yih Wan, Mark D. Yarvis, John A. Stankovic
• Keywords: Body Sensor Network, Communications, INFOCOM 2008, Sensor, Wireless Body Sensor