A Ubiquitous Scheme for a One-to-Many Switching Tunnel for Healthcare Utilization

Author

Cheng, Po-Hsun ; Hu, Shun-Hsiang ; Lin, Yu-Pao ; Hsieh, Hsiao-Chi ; Lin, Bor-Shing ; Yu, Chu ; Chen, Sao-Jie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Software Eng., Nat. Kaohsiung Normal Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

24-26 July 2012

Firstpage

389

Lastpage

392

Abstract

To enhance the computer resource access of mobile nursing carts in the healthcare field, it is necessary to provide a continuous wireless mechanism. Because the web-based utilization might switch among diverse applications, a design for a one-to-many switching tunnel is necessary. This paper illustrates a revised version of our original one-to-one stream control transmission protocol tunnel (SCTP-Tunnel) software. This middleware is implemented by the ANSI C programming language on the Ubuntu operating system, and the related coding techniques are disclosed. A complete experimental measurement of this one-to-many SCTP-Tunnel for different data packets is also demonstrated. The turn-around times per data packet in the application layer for small (1 kB~1 MB) and large (5 MB~1 GB) numbers of data packets are approximate 29.005 ms and 6.424 ms, respectively. Such system software can be simply integrated with electronic healthcare services and ubiquitously utilized in the healthcare field.

Keywords

Internet; health care; middleware; operating systems (computers); transport protocols; ubiquitous computing; ANSI C programming; SCTP-Tunnel; Ubuntu operating system; Web-based utilization; computer resource access; continuous wireless mechanism; data packets; electronic healthcare services; healthcare field; healthcare utilization; middleware; mobile nursing carts; one-to-many switching tunnel; one-to-one stream control transmission protocol tunnel software; ubiquitous scheme; Biomedical imaging; Educational institutions; IP networks; Medical services; Servers; Sockets; Wireless communication; healthcare informatics; mobile nurse cart; session control; software radio; ubiquitous service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks (CICSyN), 2012 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Phuket

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2640-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICSyN.2012.77

Filename

6274373