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

Robert H Istepanian; Nada Y Philip

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332658

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

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009:2009:717-20. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332658.

Authors

Robert H Istepanian¹, Nada Y Philip

Affiliation

¹ Mobile Information and Network Technologies research centre at Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, Kingston University, London, UK. r.istepanian@kingston.ac.uk

PMID: 19963726
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332658

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.

MeSH terms

Cell Phone / standards*
Computer Communication Networks / standards*
Delivery of Health Care / standards*
Quality Assurance, Health Care*
Telecommunications / standards*
Telemedicine / standards*
United Kingdom