Determinants of next generation e-Health network and architecture specifications

Abstract

This paper summarizes the determinants for future e-Health network and IT infrastructures in the health care environment. The paper bases on observations conducted as part of a larger study at a university hospital in Munich, and summarizes ongoing discussions, key determinants from relevant white papers, and challenges of the domain. The objective of the paper is to provide a broad overview over the implications of the e-Health domain to provide inputs in ongoing discussion on 5G characteristics.

5G Communication: An Overview of Vehicle-to-Everything, Drones, and Healthcare Use-Cases

“…The authors identified some of the significant features such as very low latency, bandwidth, scalability, high network capacity, large number of sensory devices, long battery lifetime, reliability, resilience and security that 5G networks require for m-health applications. Chen et al [70] and Thuemmler et al [74] discuss the various technical specifications relevant to healthcare such as network design approaches and paradigms. The various aspects discussed range from the types of data sources available from the healthcare domain, to the techniques required to perform the necessary data processing and network resource management techniques.…”

“…The various aspects discussed range from the types of data sources available from the healthcare domain, to the techniques required to perform the necessary data processing and network resource management techniques. Thuemmler et al [74] discuss the network spectrum required for tele-medicine applications and the interoperability requirements when setting up a telemedicine infrastructure. References [10] and [75]- [77] refer to IoT devices used for healthcare applications as Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) which requires high data and speed capacity and a long operation time over a reliable network with very low transmission delay.…”

Requirements and Enablers of Advanced Healthcare Services over Future Cellular Systems

“…In general units, physiological data of patients may be continuously collected and processed (in the cloud) to maintain a reliable picture of the patient's status. Therefore, the high connection and traffic density given by a high number of monitored patients (expected to be 100 per unit in 2035, [10]) within the limited area of the hospital can challenge the communication network. The overall data rate could stably approach 300 Mb/s (including imagery data [10]), while moderate requirements on latency (250 ms), jitter (25 ms), survival time (10 ms), and service availability (1 − 10 −3 ) are expected.…”

Internet of Things as a Service (iTaaS): Challenges and solutions for management of sensor data on the cloud and the fog

“…Several approaches to IoT systems design are known to exist and many of them have been implemented in commercialized IoT platforms 5 facilitating the implementation of applications or, in custom solutions tailored to the needs of a particular application domain such as manufacturing [15], monitoring of users activity [16], assisted living [2], e-Health [17] and remote health monitoring [18,12,13,1,19] etc. Interesting surveys covering important aspects of IoT system design and implementation have been published in [5,20,4,21,3,7].…”