Power- and delay-aware mobile application-data flow adaptation: The MobiHealth system case study

TY - GEN

T1 - Power- and delay-aware mobile application-data flow adaptation

T2 - 2008 10th IEEE Intl. Conf. on e-Health Networking, Applications and Service, HEALTHCOM 2008

AU - Wac, Katarzyna

AU - Bargh, Mortaza

AU - Peddemors, Arjan

AU - Pawar, Pravin

AU - Van Beijnum, Bert Jan

AU - Bults, Richard

PY - 2008/10/6

Y1 - 2008/10/6

N2 - Emerging healthcare applications rely on personal mobile devices to monitor patient vital signs and to send it to the hospitals-backend servers for further analysis. However, these devices have limited resources that must be used optimally in order to meet the requirements of healthcare applications endusers: healthcare professionals and their patients. This paper reports on a case study of a cardiac telemonitoring application delivered by the so-called MobiHealth system. This system relies on a commercial device with multiple (wireless) network interfaces (NI). Our study focuses on how the choice of a NI affects the end-to-end application's data delay (extremely important in case of patient's emergency) and the energy consumption of the device (relating to the service sustainability while a patient is mobile). Our results show the trade-off between the delay and battery savings achieved by various NI activation strategies in combination with application-data flow adaptation. For a given mobile device, our study shows a gain of 40-90% in battery savings, traded against the higher delays (therefore applicable mainly in non-emergency cases). The insights of our studies can be used for application-data flow adaptation aiming at battery saving and prolonging device's operation for mobile patients.

AB - Emerging healthcare applications rely on personal mobile devices to monitor patient vital signs and to send it to the hospitals-backend servers for further analysis. However, these devices have limited resources that must be used optimally in order to meet the requirements of healthcare applications endusers: healthcare professionals and their patients. This paper reports on a case study of a cardiac telemonitoring application delivered by the so-called MobiHealth system. This system relies on a commercial device with multiple (wireless) network interfaces (NI). Our study focuses on how the choice of a NI affects the end-to-end application's data delay (extremely important in case of patient's emergency) and the energy consumption of the device (relating to the service sustainability while a patient is mobile). Our results show the trade-off between the delay and battery savings achieved by various NI activation strategies in combination with application-data flow adaptation. For a given mobile device, our study shows a gain of 40-90% in battery savings, traded against the higher delays (therefore applicable mainly in non-emergency cases). The insights of our studies can be used for application-data flow adaptation aiming at battery saving and prolonging device's operation for mobile patients.

KW - Application adaptation

KW - End-to-end delay

KW - Energy efficiency

KW - Mobile device connectivity management

KW - Mobile healthcare

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=52949122180&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600138

DO - 10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600138

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:52949122180

SN - 9781424422814

T3 - 2008 10th IEEE Intl. Conf. on e-Health Networking, Applications and Service, HEALTHCOM 2008

SP - 212

EP - 218

BT - 2008 10th IEEE Intl. Conf. on e-Health Networking, Applications and Service, HEALTHCOM 2008

Y2 - 7 July 2008 through 9 July 2008

ER -