Power- and Delay-Aware Mobile Application-Data Flow Adaptation: the MobiHealth System Case Study

Wac, Katarzyna; Bargh, Mortaza; Pawar, Pravin; Van Beijnum, Bert-Jan; Peddemors, Arjan; Bults, Richard

doi:10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600138

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Power- and Delay-Aware Mobile Application-Data Flow Adaptation: the MobiHealth System Case Study

Contributors

Wac, Katarzyna

; Bargh, Mortaza; Pawar, Pravin; Van Beijnum, Bert-Jan; Peddemors, Arjan; Bults, Richard

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Singapore (Singapore), 7-9 July 2008

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Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on e-health Networking, Applications and Services - HealthCom 2008, p. 212-218

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Piscataway : IEEE Conference publications

Publication date

2008

Abstract

Emerging healthcare applications rely on personal mobile devices to monitor patient vital signs and to send it to the hospitals-backend servers for further analysis. However, these personal mobile devices have limited resources that must be used optimally in order to meet the requirements of healthcare applications end-users: healthcare professionals and their patients. This paper reports on a case study of a cardiac telemonitoring application delivered by the so-called MobiHealth system. This system relies on a commercial personal mobile device with multiple (wireless) network interfaces (NI). The study focuses on how the choice of a NI affects the end-to-end application's data delay (extremely important in case of patient's emergency) and the energy consumption of the device (relating to the service sustainability while a patient is mobile). Our results show the trade-off between battery savings and the delay achieved by various NI activation strategies in combination with application-data flow adaptation. For a given mobile device, our study shows a gain of 40-90% in battery savings, traded against the higher delays (therefore applicable mainly in non-emergency cases). The insights of our studies can be used for application-data flow adaptation aiming at battery saving and prolonging device's operation while patients being mobile.

Keywords

Mobile device connectivity management
Energy efficiency
End-to-end delay
Application adaptation
Mobile healthcare

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WAC, Katarzyna et al. Power- and Delay-Aware Mobile Application-Data Flow Adaptation: the MobiHealth System Case Study. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on e-health Networking, Applications and Services - HealthCom 2008. Singapore (Singapore). Piscataway : IEEE Conference publications, 2008. p. 212–218. doi: 10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600138

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