Seamless Health Monitoring Using 5G NR for Internet of Medical Things

Abstract

Nowadays, information and communication technology grows rapidly. The microelectronics and communication mediums also enhance their reachability of coverage and connectivity. 5G enhances the capacity of the network in terms of lowest communication latency, highest speed, enhanced throughput, minimum E2E delay, and minimizing the packet loss. In this paper, we discuss the working principle and key features of 5G communication technology along with the limitations of existing technologies. Further, we provide the taxonomy of the 5G network. Moreover, we provide a comparison of 5G and 4G LTE in terms of data privacy and security aspects. Further, we propose a four-layer architecture for ehealthcare system, which uses 5G NR (New Radio) architecture incorporating the control plane and user plane. We perform the simulation over the frequency range1 and frequency range2 and calculated the throughput and latency for distinct values of OFDM numerologies. Further, we provide a comparative analysis for 4G and 5G and deduce that 5G facilitates 10 times lower latency than 4G, and 5G can accommodate a much higher number of devices than 4G. In this work, we discuss providing better healthcare facilities electronically using 5G NR. Moreover, the data sharing and diagnosing the disease become faster and easier by using 5G NR.

Smart Healthcare Applications over 5G Networks: A Systematic Review

“…Remote care: surgery and diagnosis [26,27,29,30,34,[36][37][38][39][40][41]45,47,51,53,54,[58][59][60] Real-time continuous monitoring [17,18,[20][21][22][23][24][25]28,32,33,35,42,44,46,[48][49][50]52,[55][56][57]] Data transmission: smart ambulance [19,31,43] 3.1.1. Remote Care: Surgery and Diagnosis Through remote care, healthcare specialists provide medical services remotely via the Internet.…”

“…For remote monitoring of elderly people, Mishra et al [57] analyzed the use of wearable devices for the acquisition of physiological parameters, such as oxygen saturation level, blood pressure, body temperature, rhythm heart rate, and respiratory rate. In addition, a ML system generates reports of the physiological parameters collected from the person, and after a period of time they are sent to the specialist to provide a follow-up and diagnosis.…”

“…Constant attention and inmediate with intelligent systems[17,18,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26]28,32,33,35,42,44,[48][49][50]52,[55][56][57]60] Specialized medical care in remote areas[27,29,30,34,[36][37][38][39][40][41][45][46][47]53,54,56,58,59] Immediate emergency assistance[19,31,43] …”

Opportunities and challenges of 5G network technology toward precision medicine

“…The 5G network rollout is looking forward to faster downloads and seamless streaming of different types of data from medical devices, wearable sensors, and others to predict health risks and prevent diseases at the population level 32 . The utilization of 5G network technology can greatly enhance the parallelization of data analysis computation by dividing large datasets into smaller subtasks that can be executed concurrently on multiple machines leading to faster data processing speed, real‐time analytics, and overall system performance 33 …”

Improving the latency for 5G/B5G based smart healthcare connectivity in rural area

“…Furthermore, it discusses leveraging 5G new radio (NR) to deliver improved healthcare facilities online. Additionally, the use of 5G NR makes data exchange and disease diagnosis quicker and simpler 23 . The need for 5G in healthcare is examined in this study.…”