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A System Proposal for Collecting Medical Data from Heterogeneous Sensors Using Software-Defined Networks

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7th International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology (MEDITECH 2020)

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Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging network paradigm which allows networks to become more customizable through programmability. In the current healthcare context, services and modern standards (e.g. FHIR) can be integrated in the networking layer for faster content delivery in the desired format. The purpose of the current work is to define a system proposal where heterogeneous sensor data can be collected from different network sensors and delivered in a standardized way to the applications plane. Compared to related studies which try to achieve interoperability in the applications layer, the current work focuses on defining a communication protocol which allows the SDN controller to interpret the sensor data and to format it accordingly. This enables the lower networking layer to process and format the data to match the needs of the applications. The chosen context is that of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) which can contain different types of sensors, but the data must reach the applications layer in a unified way.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Sorin Buzura, Bogdan Iancu & Vasile Teodor Dadarlat

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Buzura, S., Iancu, B., Dadarlat, V.T. (2022). A System Proposal for Collecting Medical Data from Heterogeneous Sensors Using Software-Defined Networks. In: Vlad, S., Roman, N.M. (eds) 7th International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology. MEDITECH 2020. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 88. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93564-1_32

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