Reliable MAC Design for Ambient Assisted Living: Moving the Coordination to the Cloud

被引:25
作者
Kartsakli, Elli [1 ]
Antonopoulos, Angelos [1 ]
Lalos, Aris S. [1 ]
Tennina, Stefano [3 ]
Di Renzo, Marco [4 ]
Alonso, Luis [1 ]
Verikoukis, Christos [2 ]
机构
[1] Tech Univ Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
[2] Telecommun Technol Ctr Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
[3] Univ Aquila, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[4] Univ Paris 11, Paris, France
关键词
WIRELESS; NETWORKS;
D O I
10.1109/MCOM.2015.7010519
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
AAL technologies constitute a new paradigm that promises quality of life enhancements in chronic care patients and elderly people. From a communication perspective, they involve heterogeneous deployments of body and ambient sensors in complex multihop topologies. Such networks can significantly benefit from the application of cooperative schemes based on network coding, where random linear combinations of the original data packets are transmitted in order to exploit diversity. Nevertheless, network coordination is sometimes required to obtain the full potential of these schemes, especially in the presence of channel errors, requiring the design of efficient, reliable, and versatile MAC protocols. Motivated by the recent advances in cloud computing, we investigate the possibility of transferring the network coordination to the cloud while maintaining the data exchange and storage at a local data plane. Hence, we design a general framework for the development of cloud-assisted protocols for AAL applications and propose a high-performance and error-resilient MAC scheme with cloud capabilities.
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页码:78 / 86
页数:9
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