naa a22 4500 510798780 CHVBK 20180411083346.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11277-013-1169-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11277-013-1169-x A Prioritization Based Congestion Control Protocol for Healthcare Monitoring Application in Wireless Sensor Networks [Elektronische Daten] [Mohammad Yaghmaee, Nazbanoo Bahalgardi, Donald Adjeroh] Recent developments in biosensor and wireless technology have led to a rapid progress in wearable real time health monitoring. Unlike wired networks, wireless networks are subject to more packet loss and congestion. In this paper, we propose a congestion control and service prioritization protocol for real time monitoring of patients' vital signs using wireless biomedical sensor networks. The proposed system is able to discriminate between physiological signals and assign them different priorities. Thus, it would be possible to provide a better quality of service for transmitting highly important vital signs. Congestion control is performed by considering both the congestion situation in the parent node and the priority of the child nodes in assigning network bandwidth to signals from different patients. Given the dynamic nature of patients' health conditions, the proposed system can detect an anomaly in the received vital signs from a patient and hence assign more priority to patients in need. Simulation results confirm the superior performance of the proposed protocol. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt at a special-purpose congestion control protocol specifically designed for wireless biosensor networks. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Wireless biomedical sensor networks nationallicence Wearable healthcare monitoring nationallicence Priority-based congestion control nationallicence Learning automata nationallicence Yaghmaee Mohammad Computer Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, Mashhad, Iran aut Bahalgardi Nazbanoo Computer Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, Mashhad, Iran aut Adjeroh Donald Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 72/4(2013-10-01), 2605-2631 0929-6212 72:4<2605 2013 72 11277 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1169-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1169-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yaghmaee Mohammad Computer Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, Mashhad, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bahalgardi Nazbanoo Computer Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, Mashhad, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Adjeroh Donald Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 72/4(2013-10-01), 2605-2631 0929-6212 72:4<2605 2013 72 11277 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer