Application of Wireless Sensor Nodes to a Delay-Tolerant Health and Environmental Data Communication System in Remote Communities

Murillo, Martin J.; Aukin, Mozafar

doi:10.1109/ghtc.2011.97

“…and email over DTNs is described in [179]. In [180], WSNs and DTNs are used jointly for carrying environmental sensor measurements from rural areas through public transport buses.…”

Section: ) Data Transfer and Security Over Dtns: A Testbed Showing Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity - Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

Yaacoub¹,

Alouini²

2020

Preprint

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Providing connectivity to around half of the world population living in rural or underprivileged areas is a tremendous challenge, but also a unique opportunity. Access to the internet would provide the population living in these areas a possibility to progress on the educational, health, environment, and business levels. In this paper, a survey of technologies for providing connectivity to rural areas, and that can help address this challenge, is provided. Although access/fronthaul and backhaul techniques are discussed in the paper, it is noted that the major limitation for providing connectivity to rural and underprivileged areas is the cost of backhaul deployment. In addition, energy requirements and cost efficiency of the studied technologies are analyzed. In fact, the challenges faced for deploying an electricity network, as a prerequisite for deploying communication networks, are huge in these areas and they are granted an important share of the discussions in this paper. Furthermore, typical application scenarios in rural areas are discussed, and several country-specific use cases are surveyed. The main initiatives by key international players aiming to provide rural connectivity are also described. Moreover, directions for future evolution of rural connectivity are outlined in the paper. Although there is no single solution that can solve all rural connectivity problems, building gradually on the current achievements in order to reach ubiquitous connectivity, while taking into account the particularities of each region and tailoring the solution accordingly, seems to be the most suitable path to follow.

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“…2) Data Transfer and Security over DTNs: A testbed showing the transfer of news information and email over DTNs is described in [179]. In [180], WSNs and DTNs are used jointly for carrying environmental sensor measurements from rural areas through public transport buses.…”

Section: E Delay Tolerant Network (Dtns)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity—Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

Yaacoub

¹

,

Alouini

²

2020

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Providing connectivity to around half of the world population living in rural or underprivileged areas is a tremendous challenge, but also a unique opportunity. Access to the internet would provide the population living in these areas a possibility to progress on the educational, health, environment, and business levels. In this paper, a survey of technologies for providing connectivity to rural areas, and that can help address this challenge, is provided. Although access/fronthaul and backhaul techniques are discussed in the paper, it is noted that the major limitation for providing connectivity to rural and underprivileged areas is the cost of backhaul deployment. In addition, energy requirements and cost efficiency of the studied technologies are analyzed. In fact, the challenges faced for deploying an electricity network, as a prerequisite for deploying communication networks, are huge in these areas and they are granted an important share of the discussions in this paper. Furthermore, typical application scenarios in rural areas are discussed, and several country-specific use cases are surveyed. The main

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“…However, the use of mobile packet data networks to transmit PHI remotely requires constant phone coverage which is often not feasible in many rural areas 2 . Similarly, delay tolerant schemes for transmitting PHI via vehicular ad hoc networks have been proposed [7], [8]. However, the schemes solely utilize vehicular communications in transmitting messages to medical entities.…”

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Augmenting Cloud Connectivity with Opportunistic Networks for Rural Remote Patient Monitoring

Max-Onakpoya

¹

,

Madamori

²

,

Grant

³

et al. 2020

2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)

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Current remote patient monitoring (RPM) systems are fully reliant on the Internet. However, complete reliance on Internet connectivity is impractical in low resource and remote environments where modern infrastructure is often lacking, power outages are frequent, and/or network connectivity is sparse (e.g. rural communities, mountainous regions of Appalachia, American Indian reservations, developing countries, and natural disaster situations). This paper proposes supplementing intermittent Internet with opportunistic communication to leverage the social behaviors of patients, caregivers, and society members to facilitate out-of-range monitoring of patients via Bluetooth 5 during intermittent network connectivity. The architecture is evaluated using U.S. Census Bureau, the National Cancer Institute's, and IPUMS ATUS sample data for Owingsville, KY, and is compared against a delay tolerant RPM case that is completely disconnected from the Internet. The findings show that with only 0.30 rural population participation, the architecture can deliver 0.94 of non-emergency medical information with at least half of the information having a latency of ∼5 hours. In addition, the paper provides insights on how supplemented networks can be used in real-world rural RPM (RRPM) systems for different domain applications.

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Application of Wireless Sensor Nodes to a Delay-Tolerant Health and Environmental Data Communication System in Remote Communities

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A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity - Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity - Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity—Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

Augmenting Cloud Connectivity with Opportunistic Networks for Rural Remote Patient Monitoring

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