Provisioning of medical quality of services for HSDPA and mobile WiMAX in healthcare applications

Abstract

Mobile healthcare, or m-health, is an evolutionary concept that provides both mobility and an 'always connected' healthcare functionality. The development of this concept depends on how best the available bandwidth in (HSDPA/HSUPA) and emerging (Mobile WiMAX) networks can be correlated with the relevant medical quality of services issues. In this paper we address and discuss some of these issues and challenges. We also provide an example of a bandwidth demanding application to verify such provision mechanisms.

Performance evaluation of data intensive mobile healthcare test-bed in a 4G environment

“…Istepanian et al [1] defined the concept of mobile healthcare or m-health. They also defined the concept of medical quality of services (mQoS) in [2] and presented its provision and implementation issues in emerging HSDPA and the potential implementation of mobile WiMAX healthcare networks [3]. A wireless telemedicine service based on WLAN-WIMAX was presented in [4] and it discussed radio resource management, scheduling, connection admission control and handover/mobility management.…”

A Survey of Recent Trends in Wireless Communication Standards, Routing Protocols, and Energy Harvesting Techniques in E-Health Applications

“…matically. The results presented byPhilip (2009), andAlinejad et al (2012) compare the data rate and QoS between 3G technologies such as HSPA and 4G Mobile WiMAX, and concludes that the integration of 4G technologies in telemedicine applications provides a much more suitable environment.…”