Plain Text: S. Misra, V. Tiwari and M. S. Obaidat, "Lacas: learning automata-based congestion avoidance scheme for healthcare wireless sensor networks," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 466-479, May 2009. doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090510 ********************************** BibTex: @ARTICLE{4909284, author={S. {Misra} and V. {Tiwari} and M. S. {Obaidat}}, journal={IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications}, title={Lacas: learning automata-based congestion avoidance scheme for healthcare wireless sensor networks}, year={2009}, volume={27}, number={4}, pages={466-479}, keywords={biomedical communication;learning automata;medical computing;telecommunication computing;telecommunication congestion control;telecommunication traffic;wireless sensor networks;learning automata-based congestion avoidance scheme;healthcare wireless sensor networks;network traffic;sensor nodes;energy consumption;network throughput;unicast packets;medium access control layer;data packet arrival rate;MAC layer;congestion control mechanism;Learning automata;Medical services;Wireless sensor networks;Intelligent sensors;Energy consumption;Telecommunication traffic;Delay;Patient monitoring;Biomedical monitoring;Counting circuits;Congestion control, healthcare applications, learning automata, performance evaluation, wireless sensor networks (WSNs)}, doi={10.1109/JSAC.2009.090510}, ISSN={1558-0008}, month={May},}