Long wait times after injury and greater distances to travel between accident scenes and medical facilities contribute to increased, possibly unnecessary deaths. This paper describes a mobile emergency system aimed at reducing mortality by improving the readiness of hospital personnel, therefore allowing for more efficient treatment procedures to be performed when the victim arrives. The system is designed to provide a secure transmission of voice, medical data, and video in real-time over third-generation cellular networks. Test results obtained on a commercial network under real-life conditions demonstrate the ability to effectively transmit medical data over 3G networks, making them a viable option available to healthcare professionals.
High Definition (HD) content delivery over IP networks has become a reality in the market of entertainment technologies. This paper presents a professional testbed deployed to emulate a real use case of delivering high definition TV material over an IPTV network. The quality of the delivered H.264/AVC encoded video was evaluated by common objective video quality assessment tools in emulated environment subject to impairments. Objective measurements were further validated by subjective tests. Based on the obtained results, guidelines were drawn for the prediction of user perceived quality in loss-prone environments and on the user perception tolerance for viewing impaired HD broadcast IPTV.
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