Abstract
A large part of mobile Health (mHealth) use-cases such as
remote patient monitoring/diagnosis, teleconsultation,
and guided surgical intervention requires advanced and
reliable mobile communication solutions to provide
efficient multimedia transmission with strict medical
level Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience
(QoE) provision. The increasing deployment of overlapping
wireless access networks enables the possibility to offer
the required network resources for ubiquitous and
pervasive mHealth services. To address the challenges and
support the above use-cases in today's heterogeneous
network (HetNet) environments, we propose a
network-assisted flow-based mobility management
architecture for optimized real-time mobile medical
multimedia communication. The proposed system is
empirically evaluated in a Pan-European HetNet testbed
with multi-access Android-based mobile devices. We
observed that the proposed scheme significantly improves
the objective QoE of simultaneous real-time
high-resolution electrocardiography and high-definition
ultrasound transmissions while also enhances traffic load
balancing capabilities of wireless architectures.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 489-502 |
| Journal | Annales des télécommunications |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue number | 9-10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- mHealth
- mobile medical multimedia
- medical video quality assessment
- flow mobility
- heterogeneous networks
- dynamic network discovery and selection
- cross-layer optimization