Context-aware QoS provisioning in an m-health service platform
by Katarzyna Wac, Aart Van Halteren, Richard Bults, Tom Broens
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2007

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.

Online publication date: Thu, 08-Feb-2007

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