Emerging mobile and wireless networks
Communications of the ACM
Using Pervasive Computing to Deliver Elder Care
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Computer
A reliability-based framework for multi-path routing analysis in mobile ad-hoc networks
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Providing early resource allocation during emergencies: The mobile triage tag
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Power- and delay-awareness of health telemonitoring services: the mobihealth system case study
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on wireless and pervasive communications for healthcare
A Telehealth architecture for networked embedded systems: a case study in in vivo health monitoring
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Waveform type evaluation in congenital nystagmus
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Mobile computing in urban emergency situations: Improving the support to firefighters in the field
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
M-DART: multi-path dynamic address routing
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
AMON: a wearable multiparameter medical monitoring and alert system
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
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During medical emergencies, the ability to communicate the state and position of injured individuals is essential. In critical situations or crowd aggregations, this may result difficult or even impossible due to the inaccuracy of verbal communication, the lack of precise localization for the medical events, and/or the failure/congestion of infrastructure-based communication networks. In such a scenario, a temporary (ad hoc) wireless network for disseminating medical alarms to the closest hospital, or medical field personnel, can be usefully employed to overcome the mentioned limitations. This is particularly true if the ad hoc network relies on the mobile phones that people normally carry, since they are automatically distributed where the communication needs are. Nevertheless, the feasibility and possible implications of such a network for medical alarm dissemination need to be analysed. To this aim, this paper presents a study on the feasibility of medical alarm dissemination through mobile phones in an urban environment, based on realistic people mobility. The results showed the dependence between the medical alarm delivery rates and both people and hospitals density. With reference to the considered urban scenario, the time needed to delivery medical alarms to the neighbour hospital with high reliability is in the order of minutes, thus revealing the practicability of the reported network for medical alarm dissemination.