Title :
Provisioning of medical quality of services for HSDPA and mobile WiMAX in healthcare applications
Author :
Istepanian, Robert S H ; Philip, Nada Y.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput., Inf. Syst. & Math., Kingston Univ., London, UK
Abstract :
Mobile healthcare, or m-health, is an evolutionary concept that provides both mobility and an `always connected´ healthcare functionality. The development of this concept depends on how best the available bandwidth in (HSDPA/HSUPA) and emerging (Mobile WiMAX) networks can be correlated with the relevant medical quality of services issues. In this paper we address and discuss some of these issues and challenges. We also provide an example of a bandwidth demanding application to verify such provision mechanisms.
Keywords :
WiMax; health care; medical computing; mobile computing; quality of service; telemedicine; HSDPA; m-health; medical quality of services; mobile WiMAX; mobile healthcare; Cellular Phone; Computer Communication Networks; Delivery of Health Care; Great Britain; Quality Assurance, Health Care; Telecommunications; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3296-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332658
