MP-HA: Multicycles protocol for hospital automation over multicast addressing
Ricardo Alexsandro de Medeiros Valentim, Antônio Higor Freire de Morais, Gláucio Bezerra Brandão, Ana M. G. Guerreiro, Marcelo Araujo Xavier, B. A. Helio, Heitor U. Bezerra, Gustavo Henrique Florentino, Carlos A. Paz de Araújo · 2008
This paper presents a Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation (MP-HA) that works over multicast addressing and uses a Master-Slave architecture. The protocol creates a segmented logical network based on multicast addressing associated to hospital beds. The objective of MP-HA is to ensure the determinism on network through medium access control mechanism increasing the transmission throughput. Thus, it creates a periodical environment making use of parallel cycles which is called multicycles.