Abstract
In this paper, the design of a truthful mechanism for prioritized medical packet transmissions in e-health networks is studied. Unlike most of existing works, we focus on beyond wireless body area networks (beyond-WBANs), and consider the absolutely prioritized scheduling, i.e., emergent medical signals have to always be transmitted prior to normal ones. In our model, medical packets arrive randomly at each WBAN-gateway, and their transmission requests are reported to the base station (BS) with different packet priorities. The BS then dynamically manages the beyond-WBAN transmission service by following the proposed mechanism constructed on a multi-class multi-server queueing system. Theoretical and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed mechanism can guarantee all gateways to truthfully report their packet priorities, and can incentivize the BS to provide exclusive channel usages for e-health services.
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