TY - JOUR A2 - Hu, Fei AU - Vigneswari, T. AU - Mohamed, M. A. Maluk PY - 2014 DA - 2014/12/03 TI - Scheduling in Sensor Grid Middleware for Telemedicine Using ABC Algorithm SP - 592342 VL - 2014 AB - Advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology have enabled design of low power wireless sensor nodes capable of sensing different vital signs in our body. These nodes can communicate with each other to aggregate data and transmit vital parameters to a base station (BS). The data collected in the base station can be used to monitor health in real time. The patient wearing sensors may be mobile leading to aggregation of data from different BS for processing. Processing real time data is compute-intensive and telemedicine facilities may not have appropriate hardware to process the real time data effectively. To overcome this, sensor grid has been proposed in literature wherein sensor data is integrated to the grid for processing. This work proposes a scheduling algorithm to efficiently process telemedicine data in the grid. The proposed algorithm uses the popular swarm intelligence algorithm for scheduling to overcome the NP complete problem of grid scheduling. Results compared with other heuristic scheduling algorithms show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. SN - 1687-6415 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/592342 DO - 10.1155/2014/592342 JF - International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -