Heterogeneous Network Access for Seamless Data Transmission in Remote Healthcare
Piyush Yadav, Rajeev K. Agrawal, Komal Kashish · International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing · 2018
In Remote Health care application, the availability of reliable communication channel is a major challenge for successful transmission of the medical data from one point to other.Heterogeneous network functions across multiple radio technologies including Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs).However, there is always a need of a model where the best suited network satisfying the need of transmitting the critical data is available to the user from a set of network.The paper presents an efficient and seamless Network selection scheme designed specifically for the transmission of a patient's medical data across multiple technologies.Further, the selected network through suggested scheme is tested on multiple Quality of Service (QoS) parameters such as Delay, Packet Error Rate (PER), Received Signal Strength (RSS), Signal to noise ratio (SNR), Data Rate and cost.The simulation studies establish the effectiveness of the suggested framework by selecting a network which is best suited as per the user's applications and type of medical data transmitted.