Comparative analysis of quality of service and memory usage for adaptive failure detectors in healthcare systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 495-509

  Xiong, Naixue ^a,b   Vasilakos, Athanasios ^c   Yang, Laurence ^d   Song, Lingyang ^e   Pan, Yi ^a   Kannan, Rajgopal ^f   Li, Yingshu ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^d ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation, Comparative analysis, Dependability, Failure detection, Healthcare, Quality of service

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, DEPENDABILITY, FAILURE DETECTION, HEALTHCARE, QUALITY-OF-SERVICE; ADAPTIVE SCHEME; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EXISTING METHOD; FAILURE DETECTION; FAILURE DETECTORS; FATAL ACCIDENTS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; MEMORY SIZE; MEMORY USAGE; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; NODE FAILURE; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; QOS METRICS; TELEMEDICINE SERVICES; WINDOW SIZE;

DETECTORS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEALTH CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELEMEDICINE; WINDOWS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 67349153313     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090512     Document Type: Article

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