Title :
Converged broadband optical and wireless communication infrastructure for next-generation telehealth
Author :
Chowdhury, Arshad ; Chien, Hung-Chang ; Khire, Sourabh ; Fan, Shu-Hao ; Jayant, Nikil ; Chang, Gee-Kung
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Tech Broadband Inst., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
Emerging Telehealth and Telemedicine systems need to deliver affordable high-quality health care services by utilizing telecommunication and multimedia technologies in conjunction with medical expertise. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a telecommunication and networking architecture for implementing next generation Telemedicine and Telehealth systems. Our integrated optical-wireless based network provides super broadband, ultra low-latency connectivity for voice, video, image and data across various telemedicine modalities to facilitate real-time and near real-time communication of remote health care information.
Keywords :
broadband networks; radio-over-fibre; telemedicine; broadband optical communication; health care services; next-generation telehealth; optical wireless network; telemedicine systems; wireless communication infrastructure; Biomedical monitoring; Biomedical optical imaging; Medical diagnostic imaging; Optical imaging; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; e-health; optical-wireles; radio-overfiber; super broadband; telemedicine; telemedicne;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6374-9
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556562
