A H-QoS-demand personalized home physiological monitoring system over a wireless multi-hop relay network for mobile home healthcare applications

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1229-1241

  Lai, Chien Chih ^a   Lee, Ren Guey ^a   Hsiao, Chun Chieh ^b,c   Liu, Hsin Sheng ^a,d   Chen, Chun Chang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electrocardiogram (ECG); Health monitoring; Healthcare informatics; Healthcare quality of service (H QoS); Home healthcare; Long term; Mobile care; Multi hop relay network; Physiological monitoring; Telehomecare; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG); HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS; HEALTHCARE QUALITY OF SERVICE (H-QOS); HOME HEALTHCARE; LONG-TERM; MOBILE CARE; MULTI-HOP RELAY NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; TELEHOMECARE; WIRELESS;

CONDITION MONITORING; DISEASE CONTROL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MOBILE HOMES; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; SERVERS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 68949175505     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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