Truthful mechanism design for transmission scheduling in beyond wireless body area networks
| dc.contributor.author | Yi, Changyan | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Yahampath, Pradeepa (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Peng, Qingjin (Mechanical Engineering) Nguyen, Ha H. (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Cai, Jun (Electrical and Computer Engineering) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-21T20:25:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-21T20:25:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2018-08-14T21:12:37Z | en |
| dc.degree.discipline | Electrical and Computer Engineering | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | As an enabling technology for supporting ubiquitous physiological monitoring of human bodies, wireless body area networks (WBANs) has been proposed as a promising paradigm for future wireless communications, and can provide a lot of benefits in various perspectives. One major application of WBANs is the use for healthcare services. The implementation of WBAN-based remote medical systems can significantly alleviate the financial and social burdens resulting from the growth of aging population, the increasing demand for high-quality treatments and the rising costs, as it can offer pervasive healthcare monitoring, computer-assisted rehabilitations and emergency notifications. Because of these, a lot of research efforts have been made in this area. However, the technical issues related to data packet transmissions in beyond-WBAN communications (i.e., the information exchanges between WBAN-gateways and the remote facilities), though of high importance, have not been well studied. This thesis particularly emphasizes on studying the beyond-WBAN transmission scheduling by applying the mechanism design technique for achieving high network efficiency (e.g., social welfare maximization or operation revenue maximization), ensuring the fulfillment of desired priority-aware quality-of-service (QoS) and preventing any untruthful strategic bahaviors from smart WBAN-gateways. Specifically, i) we start by proposing a truthful mechanism for delay-sensitive transmission scheduling with homogeneous packet transmission time in the beyond-WBAN; ii) by relaxing the assumption of homogeneous packet transmission time and defining a discretized priority classification fitting the existing IEEE standards for WBAN-applications, we then design a novel truthful mechanism for supporting multi-class prioritized delay-sensitive beyond-WBAN transmission scheduling; iii) with the further consideration of a more general transmission service process and the relaxation of the fixed priority requirement, we redesign a truthful mechanism for managing delay-dependent dynamic prioritized transmission scheduling; and iv) for dealing with applications with stringent delay limits in the beyond-WBAN transmission, we extend the previously employed delay-sensitive transmission scheduling framework to a delay-constrained one and develop a corresponding truthful mechanism for delay-constrained prioritized transmission scheduling. Both theoretical analyses and simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed mechanisms. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2018 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/33219 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | WBAN | en_US |
| dc.subject | Transmission scheduling | en_US |
| dc.subject | Truthful mechanism design | en_US |
| dc.subject | Priority-aware QoS | en_US |
| dc.subject | Delay sensitivity | en_US |
| dc.title | Truthful mechanism design for transmission scheduling in beyond wireless body area networks | en_US |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |