Open AccessSupporting availability evaluation in MCC‐based mHealth planning
Author(s) -
Araujo C.,
Silva F.,
Costa I.,
Vaz F.,
Kosta S.,
Maciel P.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
ISSN - 1350-911X
DOI - 10.1049/el.2016.1652
Subject(s) - mhealth , downtime , cloud computing , computer science , architecture , wearable computer , mobile cloud computing , mobile device , embedded system , operating system , health care , art , economics , visual arts , economic growth
The mHealth wearable devices have been adopted in the last few years and have improved the human well‐being. However, mobile devices are still quite resource constrained and mHealth applications require high availability. Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is one alternative to aid mobile devices by providing remote powerful infrastructure. The objective is twofold: (i) to identify the most important components of a mHealth system through parametric sensitivity analysis; (ii) to propose and design an extended mHealth architecture with higher system availability and lower downtime period. The proposed solution reduced the downtime in 41% compared with the baseline architecture.