title: MP-HA: multicycles protocol for hospital automation over multicast addressing.
abstract: This paper presents a Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation (MP-HA) that works over multicast addressing and uses 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 throughput. Thus, it creates a periodical environment making use of parallel cycles which is called multicycles.
authors.affiliation: Federal Center of Technological Education of Rio Grande do Norte (CEFET-RN), Brazil. valentim@cefetrn.br
authors.forename: Ricardo A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: de M Valentim
authors.forename: Antonio H F
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Morais
authors.forename: Glaucio B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Brandao
authors.forename: Ana M G
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Guerreiro
authors.forename: Marcelo A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Xavier
authors.forename: Helio B A
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Junior
authors.forename: Heitor U
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Bezerra
authors.forename: Gustavo H P
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Florentino
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Paz de Araujo
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008328:Man-Machine Systems; D012984:Software