A Protocol for Hospital Automation Focused on Multicast Addressing

  • Ricardo A. M. Valentim CEFET-RJ
  • Antônio H. F. Morais UFRN
  • Diego R. Carvalho UFRN
  • Gláucio B. Brandão UFRN
  • Ana M. G. Guerreiro UFRN
  • Carlos A. Paz de Araújo University of Colorado at Colorado

Abstract


This paper presents a Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation (MP-HA) which works over multicast addressing and use 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 throuput. Thus, it creates a periodical environment making use of the cycles concept, in parallel, which is called multicycles.

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Published
2008-07-12
VALENTIM, Ricardo A. M.; MORAIS, Antônio H. F.; CARVALHO, Diego R.; BRANDÃO, Gláucio B.; GUERREIRO, Ana M. G.; ARAÚJO, Carlos A. Paz de. A Protocol for Hospital Automation Focused on Multicast Addressing. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTING APPLIED TO HEALTH (SBCAS), 8. , 2008, Belém/PA. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2008 . p. 173-182. ISSN 2763-8952.