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Due to its critical nature, emergency healthcare (e-emergency) systems should be totally reliable, efficient and support real-time traffic. Therefore e-emergency networks must provide proper quality of service (QoS) levels. After assessing the relevance of QoS deployment in different e-health contexts, this paper presents a pragmatic case-study intended to be deployed in a hospital room containing patients with high risk abnormalities, whose vital signals are being monitored by personal wireless body sensor networks. After justifying the unsuitability of ZigBee standard in this e-emergency scenario, the use of Low-Power, Real-Time (LPRT) protocol for wireless sensor networks, is proposed as an adequate candidate for such task. For the present case-study, the protocol is able to fulfill quantitatively the required QoS levels.
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Gama, Ó., Carvalho, P., Afonso, J.A., Mendes, P.M. (2009). Quality of Service in Wireless e-Emergency: Main Issues and a Case-Study. In: Corchado, J.M., Tapia, D.I., Bravo, J. (eds) 3rd Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence 2008. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85867-6_11
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