Request-Based Polling Access: Investigation of Novel Wireless LAN MAC Scheme for Low-Latency E-Health Applications

• Published in: IEEE communications letters Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 896 - 899
• Main Authors: Lv, Yunxin, Dias, Maluge Pubuduni Imali, Ruan, Lihua, Wong, Elaine, Feng, Ye, Jiang, Ning, Qiu, Kun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.05.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Access control; Coordination; delay-sensitive healthcare traffic; Delays; e-health; Health care; Hospitals; Hubs; Internet of Things; Local area networks; Low delay; Media Access Protocol; medium access control; Queues; Traffic delay; Uplink; Wireless LAN; wireless local area network; Wireless networks

For hospital e-health systems, a novel medium access control (MAC) scheme that achieves delay-sensitive healthcare traffic (DSHT) delivery in the uplink direction of wireless local area networks (WLANs) is proposed and investigated. By introducing a slotted request uploading period and informing hub...