Performance analysis of a compact robotic tele-echography E-health system over terrestrial and mobile communication links

3G wireless communications for mobile robotic tele-ultrasonography systems

“…However, if sufficient 3G bandwidth is available, simultaneous ultrasound stream and videoconferencing data transmission can be accommodated. It is reported that at least 80 percent of these in-vivo tests have led to comparable results with a conventional ultrasound examination for the organs examined and detected [7,8].…”

“…In this article, we address the performance of the system under 3G mobile connectivity. (The other links have been addressed elsewhere [5,7,8]; these different communication links will allow the universal usage of the system based on the availability of these technologies in different geographical locations.) •The patient station: composed of a 6 DoF lightweight robotic system and its corresponding control unit.…”

“…It is well known that 3G wireless technologies present an enhanced mobile platform for many wireless telemedicine applications [8,9]; in general, for: n n n nFigure the customer terminal can use processing resources resident on a remote server (e.g., one managed by the service provider). The selected U.S. streams will be transmitted over different available 3G network data rates.…”

Towards an Aggregated Biomonitoring Traffic Model for Wireless Networks

“…The model can also be used to estimate a bound for the number of clients the operator can accept as biomonitoring service subscribers, by using the conditions given (4), and a minimum over all estimations of the total number of subscribers computed using (2). Fig.…”

“…Research in the area seeks to establish the suitability of the various wireless technologies for telemedicine, and how to properly dimension and optimize the network use, e.g. the use of satellite links for controlling a telemedicine robot [4], the performance of transferring X-ray images and video in emergency orthopaedics cases over GSM and GPRS [5].…”