Title :
Improved flow control in optical burst switched networks for healthcare applications
Author :
James, Matthew ; Fayek, Dalia
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng., Guelph Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Many new health care applications require a stable, transparent, well-defined and understood communications network. As the upper-level infrastructure is put in place for telehealth applications including CARS, tele-diagnosis, VoIP and centralized storage of patient records, the development of the network required to provide a stable foundation and high performance for these applications has lagged. In order to improve the network infrastructure for health care applications a new control system for an optical burst switched (OBS) network is being investigated. This OBS control system ensures fairness to TCP flows through the OBS network, and provides real-time quality of service guarantees from OBS edge to OBS edge.
Keywords :
Internet telephony; health care; medical computing; medical information systems; patient diagnosis; quality of service; radiology; switched networks; telemedicine; transport protocols; TCP flow control; VoIP; communication network; computer assisted radiology; healthcare application; network infrastructure; optical burst switched network; patient record; real-time quality of service; tele-diagnosis; telehealth application; upper-level infrastructure; Communication networks; Communication switching; Communication system control; Control systems; Image motion analysis; Medical services; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Optical recording; Real time systems;
Conference_Titel :
Enterprise networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, 2005. HEALTHCOM 2005. Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8940-9
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2005.1500393
