Rede de controle em ambiente hospitalar: um protocolo multiciclos para automação hospitalar sobre IEEE 802.3 com IGMP Snooping

Abstract

This paper presents a Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation (MP-HA) which works over multicast addressing and use 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 throuput. Thus, it creates a periodical environment making use of the cycles concept, in parallel, which is called multicycles.