Abstract
Employment of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the healthcare field can contribute to recruiting heterogeneous medical devices and creating smart cooperation between them. This cooperation leads to an increase in the efficiency of the entire medical system, thus accelerating the diagnosis and curing of patients, in general, and rescuing critical cases in particular. In this paper, a large-scale IoT-enabled healthcare architecture is proposed. To achieve a wide range of communication between healthcare devices, not only are Internet coverage tools utilized but also satellites and high-altitude platforms (HAPs). In addition, the clustering idea is applied in the proposed architecture to facilitate its management. Moreover, healthcare data are prioritized into several levels of importance. Finally, NS3 is used to measure the performance of the proposed IoT-enabled healthcare architecture. The performance metrics are delay, energy consumption, packet loss, coverage tool usage, throughput, percentage of served users, and percentage of each exchanged data type. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed IoT-enabled healthcare architecture outperforms the traditional healthcare architecture.
Highlights
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The performance metrics to measure the efficiency of the proposed healthcare architecture are the delay, energy consumption, packet loss, coverage tool usage, throughput, number of serviced users, and percentage of each data type exchanged through the two architectures (IoT-enabled and traditional healthcare)
To ensure that the maximum number of medical devices is covered, three coverage chitecture consists of three main components: a communicator, manager, andtools prioritizer
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Many people have neglected certain important aspects of their health, such as blood pressure, pulse rate, and other factors. Some people frequently do not monitor their health and later discover health disasters. Some patients lack contact with their treating doctors due to difficulty communicating or long distances. Some patients may need a specialized medical device that may not be available in the places surrounding them or their countries. These issues create an important challenge, which is to develop healthcare and use modern technology
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