Real-time Computing
Wireless communications are rapidly becoming an essential component of modern healthcare, enabling patients to enjoy a greater level of mobility. The compelling benefits of patient freedom from wired medical equipment and the bureaucracy associated with medical treatment are major motivators for the recent explosion of mobile healthcare (m-health) systems and applications. Because m-health heavily depends on collaborative interaction among mobile medical devices wirelessly connected to back-end clinical systems, the key challenge in m-health is how to achieve medical-grade quality of service (QoS)-a level of transmission speed, reliability, privacy, and security that provides real-time, confidential, and accurate service. A wireless system that can deliver medical-grade QoS must have broad coverage, a low error rate, and a low upper limit on service latency.
