An Improved Concurrent Search Algorithm for Efficiently Finding Patients’ Locations in Medical Environments by RFID

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Title:	An Improved Concurrent Search Algorithm for Efficiently Finding Patients’ Locations in Medical Environments by RFID
Authors:	YU-LUNG WU;MING-CHIEN HOU;TZUNG-PEI HONG
Contributors:	Institute of Information Management, I-Shou University
Keywords:	radio frequency identificationconcurrent search;RFID tagmedical affairsmobile communication network
Date:	2008
Issue Date:	2009-10-13 07:20:33 (UTC+0)
Publisher:	Asia University
Abstract:	The technique of radio frequency identification (RFID) is very suitable for medical affairs due to its low-power transmitting frequency and wireless tracking capability. It has currently been used in many medical centers for tracking highly contagious and dangerous patients. In this paper we propose an improved concurrent search algorithm to find patients’ locations quickly by RFID. It is mainly based on patients’ moving regularity in medical environments to find RFID tags efficiently on a hierarchical RFID architecture. Experimental results also show the performance of the proposed approach.
Relation:	Asian Journal of Health and Information Sciences 3(1-4):1-18
Appears in Collections:	[Asian Journal of Health and Information Sciences] v.3 n.1-4

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