• DocumentCode
    2377357
  • Title

    Provisioning of medical quality of services for HSDPA and mobile WiMAX in healthcare applications

  • Author

    Istepanian, Robert S H ; Philip, Nada Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Comput., Inf. Syst. & Math., Kingston Univ., London, UK
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    3-6 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    717
  • Lastpage
    720
  • Abstract
    Mobile healthcare, or m-health, is an evolutionary concept that provides both mobility and an `always connected´ healthcare functionality. The development of this concept depends on how best the available bandwidth in (HSDPA/HSUPA) and emerging (Mobile WiMAX) networks can be correlated with the relevant medical quality of services issues. In this paper we address and discuss some of these issues and challenges. We also provide an example of a bandwidth demanding application to verify such provision mechanisms.
  • Keywords
    WiMax; health care; medical computing; mobile computing; quality of service; telemedicine; HSDPA; m-health; medical quality of services; mobile WiMAX; mobile healthcare; Cellular Phone; Computer Communication Networks; Delivery of Health Care; Great Britain; Quality Assurance, Health Care; Telecommunications; Telemedicine;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Minneapolis, MN
  • ISSN
    1557-170X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3296-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1557-170X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332658
  • Filename
    5332658