Femtocell deployed Self Organizing Network for U-Health: Opportunities and challenges

An initiative approach towards uniform integration of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) with various outgoing networks can provide a landmark in Ubiquitous Health care (U-Health) development. More interestingly, provided with Self Organizing Network (SON) characteristics, integration of WBAN with femtocell deployed cellular networks, which can bridge WBAN with widely deployed broadband connections as well, could alternatively be one of the simpler but pragmatic solutions for U-Health development. This paper highlights the opportunities of such an integrated network, analyzes both the technical and commercial challenges, and discusses some open issues.