A study of ECG telemonitoring system using mobile Internet connections

Author

Sakamoto, Toshiuki ; Wei, Daming ; Hamao, Kazuhide

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Aizu Univ., Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

593

Lastpage

597

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to investigate the performance of an electrocardiogram (ECG) telemonitor using mobile Internet connections for telemedicine. The RTP/UDP protocol was used for data transmission. Packet loss was observed and an algorithm for error correction was introduced. The experiment showed that the data loss was relative to the packet size. The packet loss was observed by FEC and the interleaving algorithm. Buffer size for interleaving and absorption of network delay was declared. It was concluded that a packet size of 100 bytes is an appropriate choice that realizes about a 3.4% packet loss. The viewing delay is 2 seconds included 1.6s buffer and 0.4s network delay. This was an acceptable performance for practical use in telemedicine and telehealthcare.

Keywords

Internet; delays; electrocardiography; error correction; health care; mobile computing; monitoring; routing protocols; telemedicine; ECG; RTP/UDP protocol; buffer size; data loss; data transmission; electrocardiogram telemonitor; error correction; interleaving algorithm; mobile Internet connections; network delay; packet loss; telehealthcare; telemedicine; telemonitoring system; Electrocardiography; Information technology; Internet; Mobile computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology, 2004. CIT '04. The Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2216-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2004.1357259

Filename

1357259