Communication protocols and on-board processor for a new national scale private mobile radio service [medical information environment]

A satellite-aided mobile radio communication service opens a new horizon of the integrated medical information environment. Doctors of medicine working on fixed or mobile stations, located in remote geographical areas, are able to communicate/cooperate each other by exchanging, handling and processing medical data simultaneously. The authors present a new national scale private mobile radio service using satellite facilities. This new service provides to the users single and multi-destinational traffic facilities, equal quality of service and high quality response, by adopting appropriate communication protocols and the corresponding on-board signal processor algorithms