Emerging mobile communication technologies for health

Author

Kumar, Basant ; Singh, S.P. ; Mohan, Anand

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Motilal Nehru Nat. Inst. of Technol., Allahabad, India

fYear

2010

fDate

17-19 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

828

Lastpage

832

Abstract

Rapid advances in mobile and network technologies in recent years have opened new opportunities for new and innovative means of healthcare delivery. Implementation of telemedicine system using mobile/ wireless technologies in the time to come will exploit the recent advances in mobile communication technologies. Brief overview of current mobile telecommunication technologies for health like 2.5G-, 3G, 4G, WiMAX, Wireless LAN, Wireless PAN including Bluetooth and ZigBee, Wireless BAN for medical sensors, mobile IP, and WAP based telemedicine systems is presented in this paper along with the limitations of the existing systems and the future challenges in m-Health systems.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; 4G mobile communication; Bluetooth; WiMax; biosensors; health care; protocols; telemedicine; 2.5G; 3G; 4G; Bluetooth; WAP; WiMAX; ZigBee; healthcare delivery; m-health system; medical sensor; mobile IP; mobile communication technology; network technology; telemedicine system; wireless BAN; wireless LAN; wireless PAN; wireless technology; Communication system security; Medical services; Mobile communication; Telemedicine; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; 3G; 4G; GPRS; GSM; M-Health; Medical Sensors; Satellite; Telemedicine; WAP; WBAN; WLAN; WPAN; WiMAX; mobile IP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9033-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCT.2010.5640393

Filename

5640393