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LTE networking: extending the reach for sensors in mHealth applications
Author(s) -
Adibi Sasan,
Mobasher Amin,
Tofigh Tom
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 2161-3915
DOI - 10.1002/ett.2598
Subject(s) - mhealth , software deployment , computer science , general partnership , 3rd generation partnership project 2 , wireless sensor network , range (aeronautics) , telecommunications , service (business) , cellular network , computer network , engineering , health care , business , telecommunications link , finance , marketing , aerospace engineering , economics , economic growth , operating system
Sensor and electronic‐health networks are widely utilized at home and in industry/research applications. In a local sense, a sensor‐to‐sensor network can have a range of a few meters to a couple of hundred meters (ZigBee Pro can extend this range up to 2000 m). With the deployment of mobile technology in the healthcare space (mobile‐Health ‘m‐Health’) and using cellular coverage, the range can virtually be unbounded. However, supporting bounded delay (end‐to‐end delay), class of service, and quality of service for critical sensor‐mHealth applications may become challenging. This challenge can be alarmingly extended when thousands of users run their sensor‐mHealth applications simultaneously and depend on limited coverage of the cell tower to transmit their health‐related data across. In this paper we will discuss how the 3rd Generation Partnership Project–Long Term Evolution networks can address such aggregation issues, and discuss the challenges and provide recommendations.Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.