TY - GEN
T1 - QoS-aware Small-Cell-Overlaid Heterogeneous Sensor Network Deployment for eHealth
AU - Chi, Hao Ran
AU - Domingues, M. Fatima
AU - Radwan, Ayman
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is funded by FCT/MEC through national funds and when applicable co-funded by FEDER – PT2020 partnership agreement under the project UIDB/50008/2020-UIDP/50008/2020.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/10/25
Y1 - 2020/10/25
N2 - eHealth has brought hope to the healthcare system development, releasing the immense pressure, imposed by population proliferation and ageing problems. Densification of networks, especially using small cells (SCs), enables connecting a huge amount of sensors in the heterogeneous sensor networks (HetSNets) deployment, for eHealth applications; however, dense small cell allocation (D-SCA) poses new challenges, due to its very complicated optimization, which usually results into integer programming problem. In this paper, we introduce a generic SC-overlaid hierarchical HetSNet infrastructure for eHealth, based on which we propose an integer-programming D-SCA scheme. The proposed scheme is tested multiple network configurations, with different scales, while supporting high data-rates and energy efficiency demands of eHealth applications in HetSNet.
AB - eHealth has brought hope to the healthcare system development, releasing the immense pressure, imposed by population proliferation and ageing problems. Densification of networks, especially using small cells (SCs), enables connecting a huge amount of sensors in the heterogeneous sensor networks (HetSNets) deployment, for eHealth applications; however, dense small cell allocation (D-SCA) poses new challenges, due to its very complicated optimization, which usually results into integer programming problem. In this paper, we introduce a generic SC-overlaid hierarchical HetSNet infrastructure for eHealth, based on which we propose an integer-programming D-SCA scheme. The proposed scheme is tested multiple network configurations, with different scales, while supporting high data-rates and energy efficiency demands of eHealth applications in HetSNet.
KW - eHealth
KW - IoT
KW - Sensor Networks
KW - Small cells
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098692004&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SENSORS47125.2020.9278766
DO - 10.1109/SENSORS47125.2020.9278766
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85098692004
T3 - Proceedings of IEEE Sensors
BT - IEEE Sensors, SENSORS 2020 - Conference Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2020 IEEE Sensors, SENSORS 2020
Y2 - 25 October 2020 through 28 October 2020
ER -
