Enhancing telemedicine application: Feasible solution from 802.16 MAC layer

Author

Pratomo, A.D. ; Yap, David F W ; Lim, K.C. ; Yeo, W.K. ; Oh, T.H.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

13-14 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

99

Abstract

Telemedicine has become interesting field of research since decades ago. Rapid development of telecommunication technologies have opened up opportunities for further exploring the use of wireless technology to attains the objectives of telemedicine. In this paper, we explore the feasible solution to enhance telemedicine application performance with the use of wireless broadband technology viz. IEEE 802.16 Wireless Interoperability Microwave Access (WiMAX). Specifically, we try to outline the relevance of key technology residing in WiMAX Media Access Control (MAC) Layer with the fulfillment of medical data transfer requirements, especially for medical image. Thus, the aim of this paper is also to suggest the researches direction in the field of wireless broadband technology in conjunction with telemedicine purpose issues.

Keywords

WiMax; access protocols; medical administrative data processing; telemedicine; 802.16 MAC layer; WiMAX Media Access Control; Wireless Interoperability Microwave Access; medical data transfer; medical image; telemedicine application; wireless broadband technology; IEEE802.16; Medical Image Transfer; OFDM; QoS; Telemedicine; scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research and Development (SCOReD), 2010 IEEE Student Conference on

Conference_Location

Putrajaya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8647-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCORED.2010.5703979

Filename

5703979