Exploiting geo-distributed clouds for a E-health monitoring system with minimum service delay and privacy preservation

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 430-439

  Shen, Qinghua ^a   Liang, Xiaohui ^a   Shen, Xuemin ^a   Lin, Xiaodong ^b   Luo, Henry Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^c Care in Motion Technology Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

E health monitoring system; geo distributed clouds; privacy preservation; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; EHEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DISTRIBUTED CLOUDS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL LAW; E-HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEMS; PRIVACY PRESERVATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION SCHEMES; TERMS OF SERVICES; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS ATTACKS; TRAFFIC-SHAPING;

MONITORING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SECURITY; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; TELEMEDICINE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84896486238     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2292829     Document Type: Article

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