Performance evaluation of cooperation mechanisms for m-health applications

Mobile health (m-Health) includes the use of mobile applications to deliver healthcare services anytime and anywhere. This paradigm benefits with the advent of Web services based systems since they allow health applications available for users with mobility support. This paper presents a novel cooperation strategy for m-Health services and applications. It comprises a reputation-based strategy for Web services oriented architectures that includes a cooperative Web service for managing all the network cooperation and nodes reputation. The cooperation strategy considers two modules for mobile nodes, one for verifying the cooperation status of neighbor nodes and another for classifying the neighbor nodes in function of their reputation. The performance of the proposal is evaluated in a real scenario, using an m-Health application, called SapoFit.