Remote patient monitoring service using heterogeneous wireless access networks: Architecture and optimization

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 412-423

  Niyato, Dusit ^a   Hossain, Ekram ^b   Camorlinga, Sergio ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

EHealth, remote patient monitoring, heterogeneous wireless networks, capacity optimization, stochastic programming, Markov decision process, queue scheduling

Indexed keywords

BIOSIGNAL; CONNECTION-COSTS; CONSTRAINED MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; E-HEALTH SERVICES; EHEALTH, REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING, HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS, CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION, STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING, MARKOV DECISION PROCESS, QUEUE SCHEDULING; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS; MONITORING DEVICE; MONITORING SERVICES; MULTIPLE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; NETWORK ACCESS; NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS; ON-DEMAND; OPTIMAL NUMBER; OPTIMAL SCHEDULING; OPTIMIZATION FORMULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PATIENT MOBILITY; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING; REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEMS; SERVICE DEMAND; SERVICE PROVIDER; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TRAFFIC SCHEDULING; WIRELESS ACCESS; WIRELESS BANDWIDTH; WIRELESS CONNECTION; WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PATIENT MONITORING; SCHEDULING; SENSOR NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 67349150656     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090506     Document Type: Article

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