Disruption-Tolerant Wireless Biomedical Monitoring for Marathon Runners: a Feasibility Study

Djamel Benferhat (1) , Frédéric Guidec (2) , Patrice Quinton (3)

1 CASA
2 VALORIA - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications de Vannes et Lorient
3 CAIRN - Energy Efficient Computing ArchItectures with Embedded Reconfigurable Resources

Off-the-shelf wireless sensing devices open a wide range of perspectives for tetherless biomedical monitoring. Yet most applications considered to date imply either indoor realtime data streaming or ambulatory data recording. Disruption-tolerant networking is a means to cope with challenging situations where continuous end-to-end connectivity between communicating devices cannot be guaranteed. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using this approach to remotely monitor the cardiac activity of runners during a marathon race, using off-the shelf sensing devices and a limited number of base stations deployed along the marathon route. Preliminary experiments show that such a scenario is indeed viable, although special attention must be paid to balancing the requirements of ECG monitoring with the constraints of episodic, low-rate transmissions.

Mots clés: wireless disruption-tolerant networking; sensor networking; biomedical monitoring

Domaines: Informatique mobile; Informatique ubiquitaire; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Djamel Benferhat, Frédéric Guidec, Patrice Quinton. Disruption-Tolerant Wireless Biomedical Monitoring for Marathon Runners: a Feasibility Study. 1st International Workshop on Opportunistic and Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Networking (WODTN'11), in conjunction with the 14th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'11), Oct 2011, Brest, France. pp.1-5. ⟨hal-00648467⟩