MP-HA: multicycles protocol for hospital automation over multicast addressing.
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.
de M Valentim
Ricardo A
RA
Federal Center of Technological Education of Rio Grande do Norte (CEFET-RN), Brazil. valentim@cefetrn.br
Morais
Antonio H F
AH
Brandao
Glaucio B
GB
Guerreiro
Ana M G
AM
Xavier
Marcelo A
MA
Junior
Helio B A
HB
Bezerra
Heitor U
HU
Florentino
Gustavo H P
GH
Paz de Araujo
Carlos A
CA
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