Performance Evaluation of Rural e-Health Scenarios: Users and QoS Management

The development of e-health services in rural environments, where broadband accesses are usually not available, requires a specific analysis of available resources to improve the management of quality of service (QoS). This work studies the sharing of resources among several users and the system eff...

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Published in:2006 International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2006, p.5234-5237
Main Authors: Martinez, I., Garcia, J., Viruete, E., Fernandez, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities and towns
Conference management
Environmental management
Hospitals
IP networks
Performance analysis
Quality management
Quality of service
Telemedicine
USA Councils
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Summary:The development of e-health services in rural environments, where broadband accesses are usually not available, requires a specific analysis of available resources to improve the management of quality of service (QoS). This work studies the sharing of resources among several users and the system efficiency in rural areas, guaranteeing QoS. The results obtained show that, with the premises considered in this study, a rural centre can establish a maximum number of simultaneous real-time services with the hospital, which varies between 2 and 3 for each 64 kb/s of available link capacity
ISSN:1557-170X
DOI:10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259346