M-Health Solutions Using 5G Networks and M2M Communications

Abstract

The authors present recent research linking the growing mobile health (m-health) field with the need for 5G and machine-to-machine technologies. They explore the multiple benefits that these emerging technologies could offer to broadly expand m-health solutions. Since the 1950s, the scientific and industrial communities have proposed using electronic and computer technology in healthcare. In recent decades, society has seen breakthroughs in technology that significantly change peoples' behavior and needs and are poised to revolutionize the healthcare field. These advancements have occurred mainly due to the emergence and evolution of Internet and mobile communications. Such technologies are being widely used to develop medical solutions that make patient information available anytime and anywhere.Computer technologies, modern equipment, and ICT for healthcare solutions have given rise to the electronic health (e-health) field, while the integration of mobile computing, medical sensors, and portable devices in the health environment has enabled the subfield of mobile health (m-health). Although there are similarities between e-health and m-health, they also have some differences. Whereas e-health, in a general way, is using ICT for healthcare, m-health adds to e-health a specific focus on exploiting advances in mobile communications, ubiquitous computing, and wearable technologies.In the past decade, mobile communication technology has achieved significant advancements in coverage, service usage, and transmission rates. Today, mobile networks support more than 3.6

An Innovative eHealth System Powered By 5G Network Slicing

“…They also stated that these technologies together can finally crack a dysfunctional healthcare system that has largely been impervious to technological innovations. Furthermore, the authors in [14] presented recent research linking the growing mobile health (mHealth) field with the need for 5G and machine-to-machine technologies. They explored the multiple benefits that these emerging technologies could offer to broadly expand mHealth solutions.…”

“…Additional research included in [16], where the authors introduced systems of wearable or implantable medical devices, and sensor systems for monitoring and transmitting physiological recorded signals, within a 5G infrastructure. Moreover, in [17] a potential 5G network and machine-tomachine communication was presented for developing and evolving mobile health applications. It is also worth mentioning that an initial research of this paper is also made in [18], where the authors proposed an IoT-Oriented architecture that enables the facilitation of concurrent IoT applications and services with diverse requirements based on dynamic 5G slices allocation.…”

IoT’s Tiny Steps towards 5G: Telco’s Perspective

“…Telecom operators observe the technical challenges of IoT through systems, tools, devices, and platforms because their availability and integration complexity determines the opportunity to capture a share of the value that is generated by IoT implementation. Based on the literature review, it was found that the most commonly mentioned terms in this sense were related to: (1) ticketing system [201]; (2) monitoring: devices [199,[201][202][203][204]/services [199,201,202,205,206]/tools [207]/systems [11,12,199,201,205,206,[208][209][210]/ data [95,201]/framework [12,201]/solutions [20,205]/networks [211]/process [7]/activity [203,204,207]; (3) tracking technologies [4]/devices [204]/systems [204]/applications [11,210]/system [201]/services [202,205]; (4) [95,199]. This has led us to identify four activities, i.e., ticketing, monitoring, tracking, and managing/controlling, as new classification criteria of IoT applications.…”

“…In order to achieve network sustainability, required for 5G networks [216], spectrum efficiency needs to be improved 3-5 times [20,32,216]. Minimum peak spectrum efficiency is 30 bps/Hz for downlink and 15 bps/Hz for uplink [32].…”

Energy efficient CM2M communications in healthcare systems

“…We assume the spectrum handoff delay ‫,݈ݏ݇‬ is also added after the sensing slot in the CM2M gateways frames if the CM2M gateways decide to carry out channel switching after considering the sensing result and other thresholds. The CM2M gateways at the beginning of each transmission slot may choose to transmit data on the current channel, switch to another channel with a switch delay of ‫,݈ݏ݇‬ or stay on the current channel without transmitting; the primary transmission follows an on-off traffic model and is assumed to be continuous [8]. Fig.…”