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IEEE EUROCON 2023 - 20th International Conference on Smart Technologies
Increases in population and limited health workforce have increased demand for health care servic... more Increases in population and limited health workforce have increased demand for health care services. Unfortunately there has not been a corresponding increase in healthcare facilities and personnel. Modern technology, using smart electronic technology provide means of solving these problems. Telemedicine requires high speed data networks in order to provide effective healthcare in ways similar to traditional healthcare methods. IEEE 802.16e or Mobile WIMAX provides last mile high speed broadband wireless access. WIMAX also provides QoS as part of its implementation. In this project we have reviewed WIMAX QoS Service Classes and mapped them to some healthcare applications to analyse the performance. A WIMAX network is simulated based on our mappings and the throughput and delay performance are analysed based on the QoS requirements of healthcare services. The throughputs and delays we got from our simulations were better than the requirements for medical applications except for heart rate transmission. Changing the audio encoding scheme for heart rate improves the throughput but none of the encoding schemes achieves the health requirements.
IEEE EUROCON 2023 - 20th International Conference on Smart Technologies
Increases in population and limited health workforce have increased demand for health care servic... more Increases in population and limited health workforce have increased demand for health care services. Unfortunately there has not been a corresponding increase in healthcare facilities and personnel. Modern technology, using smart electronic technology provide means of solving these problems. Telemedicine requires high speed data networks in order to provide effective healthcare in ways similar to traditional healthcare methods. IEEE 802.16e or Mobile WIMAX provides last mile high speed broadband wireless access. WIMAX also provides QoS as part of its implementation. In this project we have reviewed WIMAX QoS Service Classes and mapped them to some healthcare applications to analyse the performance. A WIMAX network is simulated based on our mappings and the throughput and delay performance are analysed based on the QoS requirements of healthcare services. The throughputs and delays we got from our simulations were better than the requirements for medical applications except for heart rate transmission. Changing the audio encoding scheme for heart rate improves the throughput but none of the encoding schemes achieves the health requirements.