Reliable service delivery in Tele-health care systems

Abstract

Modern ICT Applications on Tele-health focuses on providing the smart infrastructure that facilitates the delivery of health services. While Internet-of-Things (IoT) and cloud-computing platforms assist the implementation of such architecture, the reliability of service delivery during network disconnection is still an open issue in this domain. This paper proposes a prediction methodology that is able to deliver reliable services with acceptable accuracy by incorporating domain-specific knowledge into exchanged data. The proposed service will be of a great value in a situation where the network availability is not reliable. The contributions of this work are to 1) measure the impact of ontology enrichment on classifying the health data, 2) develop a prediction model that is able to predict patients' readings with an acceptable accuracy, and 3) minimize communicating messages among the network components. Three experiments have been conducted on a real health dataset to measure the performance of the proposed methodology. The results showed that our proposed methodology improved the reliability of the Tele-health services implemented on the top of IoT and cloud-computing platforms.