Context-awareness for mobility management: A systems survey for healthcare monitoring

The advent of supplying mobile devices with more processing capabilities, employing reduced power consumption techniques and incorporating the latest data transmission technologies sets ground to a vast variety of applications. Information technology has been playing an increasingly stronger part on the healthcare area throughout the years, aiding it to be more accurate, faster to respond and less sensible to human errors. Wireless access technology has a vast application on Healthcare, namely for living assistance at patient´s home or on the move, performing such tasks as monitoring patient´s health. This concept of health monitoring can be further extended to sport performance monitoring or risk job health monitoring (for example: mine workers, track runners) to whom stationary monitoring is not possible. To support this resiliency with extended battery life, the monitoring terminal requires an efficient management of radio access technologies that enable it to communicate. This paper provides a literature review on context aware systems for mobility management, which are applied to aid the handover process. Based on learning data, users´ connectivity can be optimized. Deploying entities that have functional intelligence and consistent background knowledge at their disposal, it will enable taking clever decisions therefore improving its performance. Ideally, these entities will be able to learn from experience, with special regard to user preferences, user behavior and recurring situations in the network infrastructure and surrounding scenario.