Transmission of medical messages of patient using control signal of cellular network

Aal-Nouman, MIA; Takruri-Rizk, H; Hope, MD

Abstract

The healthcare system needs to track and monitor patients’ status and information. One of the most important requirements is that the patient is able to access the service anywhere at any time. Systems are being developed using the Internet to monitor patients’ status, and in some areas, especially rural areas and motorways, the Internet may not be available, even though the mobile network is available. In some cases, the network might be overloaded, so the patient information cannot be delivered to the hospital or medical centre. We propose a new method that uses the spare extension of the random access channel (RACH), which is carried by physical random access channel (PRACH) to send the patient information to the medical centre. We present the mathematical model of the channel and compare the results with another system from 3GPP to evaluate the results. The results show that the proposed method needs less time to transmit the patient’s information.

Citation

Aal-Nouman, M., Takruri-Rizk, H., & Hope, M. (2018). Transmission of medical messages of patient using control signal of cellular network. Telematics and Informatics, 35(1), 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.11.008

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 23, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Nov 26, 2017
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Mar 27, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 26, 2018
• Journal: Telematics and Informatics
• Print ISSN: 0736-5853
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 267-281
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.11.008
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.11.008
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