Title :
Performance Evaluation of Rural e-Health Scenarios: Users and QoS Management
Author :
Martinez, I. ; Garcia, J. ; Viruete, E. ; Fernandez, J.
Author_Institution :
Aragon Inst. of Eng. Res., Zaragoza Univ.
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Abstract :
The development of e-health services in rural environments, where broadband accesses are usually not available, requires a specific analysis of available resources to improve the management of quality of service (QoS). This work studies the sharing of resources among several users and the system efficiency in rural areas, guaranteeing QoS. The results obtained show that, with the premises considered in this study, a rural centre can establish a maximum number of simultaneous real-time services with the hospital, which varies between 2 and 3 for each 64 kb/s of available link capacity
Keywords :
health care; quality of service; telemedicine; 64 kbit/s; broadband access; quality of service management; real-time service; rural e-health service; Cities and towns; Conference management; Environmental management; Hospitals; IP networks; Performance analysis; Quality management; Quality of service; Telemedicine; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259346
