Performance evaluation of the context-aware handover mechanism for the nomadic mobile services in remote patient monitoring

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3831-3842

  Pawar, Pravin ^a   van Beijnum, Bert Jan ^a   van Sinderen, Marten ^a   Aggarwal, Akshai ^b   Maret, Pierre ^c   De Clercq, Frédéric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d Luxembourg SA ^*  (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Handheld mobile devices; Multi homing; Nomadic mobile services; Remote patient monitoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA TRANSFER; MECHANISMS; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; RADIO SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

HANDHELD MOBILE DEVICES; MULTI-HOMING; NOMADIC MOBILE SERVICES; REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 53849143928     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.04.020     Document Type: Article

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