NEW e-health signaling model in the NGN environment

Author

Said, Adel Mounir ; Ibrahim, Ashraf William

Author_Institution

Switching Dept., Nat. Telecommun. Inst. - NTI, Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2012

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

391

Lastpage

394

Abstract

Sensor Networks are considered the heart of a wide range of applications. e-Health is one of those applications. This paper proposes a new network and Context Awareness service architecture for e-Health services. The proposal integrates the Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) with the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based Next Generation Network (NGN). It provides a detailed signaling model for different healthcare scenarios based on SIP. The proposal involves modifications made to SIP to match the new e-Health features provided.

Keywords

IP networks; biomedical communication; medical computing; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; signalling protocols; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; IP multimedia subsystem; SIP; context awareness service architecture; e-health signaling model; next generation network environment; sensor networks; ubiquitous sensor network; Context-aware services; IP networks; Logic gates; Medical services; Multimedia communication; Next generation networking; Servers; IMS; NGN; SIP; USN; e-Health;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2039-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-2038-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379445

Filename

6379445