Medical-Grade Quality of Service for Real-Time Mobile Healthcare

Kang, Kyungtae; Wang, Qixin; Hur, Junbeom; Park, Kyung‐Joon; Sha, Lui

doi:10.1109/mc.2015.52

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“…Proposals within a tier are classified based on the considered or implemented protocol layers (e.g., MAC, Network). Generally, communication between personal servers (tier 2) and level 3 devices use cellular (3G/4G) technology or wireless LAN, which are sufficiently matured technologies and can support QoS [Kang et al 2015]. Moreover, a few BANs-specific research works are available on these technologies.…”

Section: Overview Of Existing Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

QoS in Body Area Networks

Razzaque

Hira²,

Dira

2017

ACM Trans. Sen. Netw.

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Body Area Networks (BANs) are becoming increasingly popular and have shown great potential in realtime monitoring of the human body. With the promise of being cost effective, unobtrusive, and facilitating continuous monitoring, BANs have attracted a wide range of monitoring applications, including medical and healthcare, sports, and rehabilitation systems. Most of these applications are real-time and life-critical, and require a strict guarantee of Quality of Service (QoS), in terms of timeliness, reliability, etc. Recently, there have been a number of proposals describing diverse approaches or frameworks to achieve QoS in BANs (i.e., for different layers or tiers, different protocols). This survey put these individual efforts into perspective and presents a more holistic view of the area. In this regard, this article identifies a set of QoS requirements for BANs applications and shows how these requirements are linked in a 3-tier BAN system, and presents a comprehensive review of the existing proposals against those requirements. In addition, open research issues, challenges, and future research directions in achieving these QoS in BANs are highlighted.

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Section: Overview Of Existing Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

QoS in Body Area Networks

Razzaque

Hira²,

Dira

2017

ACM Trans. Sen. Netw.

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“…Class-B consists of non-medical continuous data with delay range 0.4; while Class C consists of other data like file transfer with higher delay requirements. In [19], it is evaluated the QoS requirements of some key medical applications. It is noted that packet delivery ratio, security, service latency, and jitter are crucial QoS parameters for M-health applications.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A scenario of possible continuous wireless ECG transmission using CDMA2000 is evaluated in [19]. The protocol layers considered for transmission are security and logicallink layers, MAC layer, and physical layer.…”

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Survey on Monitoring and Quality Controlling of the Mobile Biosignal Delivery

Pawar

Edla

Edoh

et al. 2017

Interdiscip Sci Comput Life Sci

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A Mobile Patient Monitoring System (MPMS) acquires patient's biosignals and transmits them using wireless network connection to the decision-making module or healthcare professional for the assessment of patient's condition. A variety of wireless network technologies such as wireless personal area networks (e.g., Bluetooth), mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET), and infrastructure-based networks (e.g., WLAN and cellular networks) are in practice for biosignals delivery. The wireless network quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of biosignals delivery are mainly specified in terms of required bandwidth, acceptable delay, and tolerable error rate. An important research challenge in the MPMS is how to satisfy QoS requirements of biosignals delivery in the environment characterized by patient mobility, deployment of multiple wireless network technologies, and variable QoS characteristics of the wireless networks. QoS requirements are mainly application specific, while available QoS is largely dependent on QoS provided by wireless network in use. QoS provisioning refers to providing support for improving QoS experience of networked applications. In resource poor conditions, application adaptation may also be required to make maximum use of available wireless network QoS. This survey paper presents a survey of recent developments in the area of QoS provisioning for MPMS. In particular, our contributions are as follows: (1) overview of wireless networks and network QoS requirements of biosignals delivery; (2) survey of wireless networks' QoS performance evaluation for the transmission of biosignals; and (3) survey of QoS provisioning mechanisms for biosignals delivery in MPMS. We also propose integrating end-to-end QoS monitoring and QoS provisioning strategies in a mobile patient monitoring system infrastructure to support optimal delivery of biosignals to the healthcare professionals.

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