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Emergency Prioritized and Congestion Handling Protocol for Medical Internet of Things
Sabeen Tahir*, Sheikh Tahir Bakhsh, Rayed AlGhamdi
Information Technology Department, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
* Corresponding Author: Sabeen Tahir. Email:
(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Intelligent Decision Support Systems for Complex Healthcare Applications)
Computers, Materials & Continua 2021, 66(1), 733-749. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.013261
Received 31 July 2020; Accepted 11 September 2020; Issue published 30 October 2020
Abstract
Medical Internet of Things (MIoTs) is a collection of small and energyefficient wireless sensor devices that monitor the patient’s body. The healthcare
networks transmit continuous data monitoring for the patients to survive them
independently. There are many improvements in MIoTs, but still, there are critical
issues that might affect the Quality of Service (QoS) of a network. Congestion
handling is one of the critical factors that directly affect the QoS of the network.
The congestion in MIoT can cause more energy consumption, delay, and important data loss. If a patient has an emergency, then the life-critical signals must
transmit with minimum latency. During emergencies, the MIoTs have to monitor
the patients continuously and transmit data (e.g., ECG, BP, heart rate, etc.) with
minimum delay. Therefore, there is an efficient technique required that can transmit emergency data of high-risk patients to the medical staff on time with maximum reliability. The main objective of this research is to monitor and transmit
the patient’s real-time data efficiently and to prioritize the emergency data. In this
paper, Emergency Prioritized and Congestion Handling Protocol for Medical IoTs
(EPCP_MIoT) is proposed that efficiently monitors the patients and overcome the
congestion by enabling different monitoring modes. Whereas the emergency data
transmissions are prioritized and transmit at SIFS time. The proposed technique
is implemented and compared with the previous technique, the comparison results
show that the proposed technique outperforms the previous techniques in terms of
network throughput, end to end delay, energy consumption, and packet loss ratio.
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APA Style
Tahir, S., Bakhsh, S.T., AlGhamdi, R. (2021). Emergency prioritized and congestion handling protocol for medical internet of things. Computers, Materials & Continua, 66(1), 733-749. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.013261
Vancouver Style
Tahir S, Bakhsh ST, AlGhamdi R. Emergency prioritized and congestion handling protocol for medical internet of things. Comput Mater Contin. 2021;66(1):733-749 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.013261
IEEE Style
S. Tahir, S.T. Bakhsh, and R. AlGhamdi "Emergency Prioritized and Congestion Handling Protocol for Medical Internet of Things," Comput. Mater. Contin., vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 733-749. 2021. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.013261
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