Physiological Information Reliability: Cross-Layer Adaptive Resource Allocation for Cardiovascular Sensing

Navaneeth Krishnan Kamalakannan, Janakiraman Kamalakannan, Harinisri Velmurugan

Cardiovascular sensing systems must preserve clinically useful information despite signal degradation, wireless losses, energy constraints, and edge-computation latency. We introduce Physiological Information Reliability (PIR), a cross-layer framework that represents physiological information value jointly with wireless, energy, and computation states and uses a contextual bandit to adapt sensing and communication decisions. We integrate multimodal ECG/PPG signal-quality estimation with physiological information value and an adaptive network-coding layer under burst-erasure conditions. Across controlled multiseed experiments, PIR-LinUCB demonstrates a promising low-energy operating point while maintaining medical latency constraints and competitive physiological estimation performance relative to fixed and heuristic policies. We analyze the resulting accuracy-energy-latency trade-offs and identify limitations of proxy PIV estimation and simulated communication dynamics. These results provide an initial computational demonstration of physiological-information-aware resource allocation and motivate future clinical and real-channel validation.