Provisioning of medical quality of services for HSDPA and mobile WiMAX in healthcare applications.
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.
Istepanian
Robert H
RH
Mobile Information and Network Technologies research centre at Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, Kingston University, London, UK. r.istepanian@kingston.ac.uk
Philip
Nada Y
NY
D040421:Cell Phone / Q000592:standards*; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000592:standards*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom