title: Survey of WBSNs for Pre-Hospital Assistance: Trends to Maximize the Network Lifetime and Video Transmission Techniques.
abstract: This survey aims to encourage the multidisciplinary communities to join forces for innovation in the mobile health monitoring area. Specifically, multidisciplinary innovations in medical emergency scenarios can have a significant impact on the effectiveness and quality of the procedures and practices in the delivery of medical care. Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) are a promising technology capable of improving the existing practices in condition assessment and care delivery for a patient in a medical emergency. This technology can also facilitate the early interventions of a specialist physician during the pre-hospital period. WBSNs make possible these early interventions by establishing remote communication links with video/audio support and by providing medical information such as vital signs, electrocardiograms, etc. in real time. This survey focuses on relevant issues needed to understand how to setup a WBSN for medical emergencies. These issues are: monitoring vital signs and video transmission, energy efficient protocols, scheduling, optimization and energy consumption on a WBSN.
authors.affiliation: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Col. Tecnológico, Monterrey, NL 64849, Mexico. mseenrique@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.affiliation: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Col. Tecnológico, Monterrey, NL 64849, Mexico. raul.p.ortega@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Raul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peña
authors.affiliation: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Col. Tecnológico, Monterrey, NL 64849, Mexico. cvargas@itesm.mx.
authors.forename: Cesar
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vargas-Rosales
authors.affiliation: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Col. Tecnológico, Monterrey, NL 64849, Mexico. aavila@itesm.mx.
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Avila
authors.affiliation: Technical University of Catalonia, C./Esteve Terradas 7, Castelldefels, Barcelona 08860, Spain. dperez@tsc.upc.edu.
authors.forename: David Perez-Diaz
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: de Cerio
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology; D017216:Telemedicine; D014741:Video Recording; D059015:Wireless Technology
keywords: emergency mobile healthcare; energy consumption; optimization system for adaptive model; wireless body sensor network