Abstract
Inevitably, healthcare goes mobile. Recently developed mobile healthcare (i.e., m-health) services allow healthcare professionals to monitor mobile patient's vital signs and provide feedback to this patient anywhere at any time. Due to the nature of current supporting mobile service platforms, m-health services are delivered with a best-effort, i.e., there are no guarantees on the delivered Quality of Service (QoS). In this paper, we argue that the use of context information in an m-health service platform improves the delivered QoS. We give a first attempt to merge context information with a QoS-aware mobile service platform in the m-health services domain. We illustrate this with an epilepsy tele-monitoring scenario.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 102-108 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISSN | 1743-8209 |
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| Publication status | Published - 18 May 2007 |
Keywords
- 3G
- Context-awareness
- M-health
- QoS
- QoS-awareness
- Quality of Service
- Tele-monitoring