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	Title:	Context-aware QoS provisioning in an m-health service platform
	Author:	Katarzyna Wac, Aart Van Halteren, Richard Bults, Tom Broens
	Address:	CUI, OSG Group, University of Geneva, 24 rue General Dufour, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. ' Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, ASNA Group, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. ' Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, ASNA Group, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. ' Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, ASNA Group, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
	Journal:	International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology 2007 - Vol. 2, No.2  pp. 102 - 108
	Abstract:	Inevitably, healthcare goes mobile. Recently developed mobile healthcare (i.e., m-health) services allow healthcare professionals to monitor mobile patient's vital signs and provide feedback to this patient anywhere at any time. Due to the nature of current supporting mobile service platforms, m-health services are delivered with a best-effort, i.e., there are no guarantees on the delivered Quality of Service (QoS). In this paper, we argue that the use of context information in an m-health service platform improves the delivered QoS. We give a first attempt to merge context information with a QoS-aware mobile service platform in the m-health services domain. We illustrate this with an epilepsy tele-monitoring scenario.
	Keywords:	mobile healthcare; m-health service platforms; European mobihealth project; telemonitoring; quality of service; QoS awareness; QoS provisioning; context awareness; 3G; epilepsy telemonitoring; healthcre technology.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJIPT.2007.012373
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