Title :
Femtocell deployed Self Organizing Network for U-Health: Opportunities and challenges
Author :
Thapa, Anup ; Shin, Seokjoo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Chosun Univ., Gwangju, South Korea
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
body area networks; femtocellular radio; ubiquitous computing; U-health development; WBAN; cellular networks; femtocellular radio; self organizing network characteristics; ubiquitous health care services; wireless body area network; Broadband communication; Interference; Medical services; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Quality of service; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
PyeongChang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0150-3
