Title :
Satellite wide-area-network for telemedicine
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Missouri Univ., Columbia, MO, USA
Abstract :
Communications for Telemedicine requires substantial bandwidths to provide timely transmission of large data sets. To provide rural America with modern Telemedicine requires very high bandwidth resources that may take decades to appear. Satellites provide the natural choice for communication between the rural primary care centers and the tertiary care hospital. However there are problems if TCP, as required for Internet access, is to be the protocol of choice. Analysis of multi-station satellite access clearly argues for distributed non-random methods and hence for appropriate handling of TCP data streams
Keywords :
Internet; satellite communication; telemedicine; transport protocols; wide area networks; Internet access; TCP; distributed non-random methods; high bandwidth resources; multi-station satellite access; protocol; rural America; rural primary care centers; satellite wide-area-network; telemedicine; tertiary care hospital; Artificial satellites; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Biomedical imaging; Hospitals; Magnetic resonance imaging; Streaming media; Telemedicine; Ultrasonic imaging; Video on demand;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5846-5
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2000.879382
