An antiwindup approach to power controller switching in an ambient healthcare network

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2011-04
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Walsh, Michael
Barton, John
O'Flynn, Brendan
Hayes, Martin J.
Ó Mathúna, S. Cian
Mahdi Alavi, Seyed Mohammad
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This paper proposes a methodology for improved power controller switching in mobile Body Area Networks operating within the ambient healthcare environment. The work extends Anti-windup and Bumpless transfer results to provide a solution to the ambulatory networking problem that ensures sufficient biometric data can always be regenerated at the base station. The solution thereby guarantees satisfactory quality of service for healthcare providers. Compensation is provided for the nonlinear hardware constraints that are a typical feature of the type of network under consideration and graceful performance degradation in the face of hardware output power saturation is demonstrated, thus conserving network energy in an optimal fashion.
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Anti-Windup , Bumpless transfer , Hardware constraints , Power controller switching , Wireless networks
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Michael J. Walsh; John Barton; Brendan O Flynn; Martin J. Hayes; S. Cian Ó Mathúna; Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Alavi; (2011) 'An antiwindup approach to power controller switching in an ambient healthcare network'. International journal of ambient computing and intelligence, 3 (2):35-55. doi: 10.4018/jaci.2011040103
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Copyright © 2011, IGI Global.This paper appears in "International journal of ambient computing and intelligence" edited by Kevin Curran. Copyright 2010, IGI Global, www.igi-global.com. Posted by permission of the publisher.