Power- and delay-awareness of health telemonitoring services: The mobihealth system case study

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 525-536

  Wac, Katarzyna ^a,b   Bargh, Mortaza ^d   Van Beijnum, Bert Jan ^c   Bults, Richard ^c   Pawar, Pravin ^c   Peddemors, Arjan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c MobiHealth BV   (Netherlands)

^d TELEMATICA INSTITUUT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mobile device connectivity management, energy efficiency, end to end delay, application adaptation, mobile healthcare

Indexed keywords

BACK-END SERVERS; BATTERY LIFE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; DATA DELAYS; DATA FLOW; EMERGENCY SITUATION; END TO END DELAY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; NEAR REAL-TIME DATUM; NETWORK INTERFACE; PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICES; REAL TIME; TELE-MONITORING; USER REQUIREMENTS; VITAL SIGN;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEALTH CARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 67349231928     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090514     Document Type: Article

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