Medical Network Traffic Recorder and Real Time Diagnostic System

The medical device market rises rapidly as innovation produces a stream of new applications. The added mobility offered by wireless telemetry is fueling a trend of wirelessly networked devices. Standard wireless interfaces like ISO/IEEE 11073 are increasingly being adopted for interoperability. This boosts the proliferation of wireless medical devices yet also generates reliability challenges due to wireless network overloading. Our proposal develops a Medical Network Traffic Recorder (MNTR) device that securely captures and logs medical wireless traffic over such standard storing and playing back this traffic. The real-time monitoring and data warehousing enabled by MNTR allows development of a real time Medical Network Diagnostic System (MNDS) using Data Mining technology. The MNDS monitors traffic and issues real-time warning on network quality. We will deploy a test bed MNTR at UTA¿s HERACLEIA Lab¿s Wireless Human Data Sensor Networks. In Phase II, we plan to develop a Patient Health Monitoring System using Data Mining techniques.