Abstract
Smart health-care is undergoing rapid transformation from the conventional specialist and hospital-focused style to a distributed patient-focused manner. Several technological developments have encouraged this rapid revolution of health-care vertical. Currently, 4G and other communication standards are used in health-care for smart health-care services and applications. These technologies are crucial for the evolution of future smart health-care services. With the growth in the health-care industry, several applications are expected to produce a massive amount of data in different format and size. Such immense and diverse data needs special treatment concerning the end-to-end delay, bandwidth, latency and other attributes. It is difficult for current communication technologies to fulfil the requirements of highly dynamic and time-sensitive health care applications of the future. Therefore, the 5G networks are being designed and developed to tackle the diverse communication needs of health-care applications in Internet of Things (IoT). 5G assisted smart health-care networks are an amalgamation of IoT devices that require improved network performance and enhanced cellular coverage. Current connectivity solutions for IoT face challenges, such as the support for a massive number of devices, standardisation, energy-efficiency, device density, and security. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of 5G assisted smart health-care solutions in IoT. We present a structure for smart health-care in 5G by categorizing and classifying existing literature. We also present key requirements for successful deployment of smart health-care systems for certain scenarios in 5G. Finally, we discuss several open issues and research challenges in 5G smart health-care solutions in IoT.
Highlights
Smart health-care enables advanced diagnostic instruments to provide advanced treatment for the patients and smart health-care devices to enhance the quality of health-care by providing vital signs in real-time
Similar challenges for the mentioned system’s applications when they are overlaid on Internet of Things (IoT)-based network are thoroughly discussed, a context predictor is used for remote health monitoring that is based on IoT in [45]
Next-generation (5G) network are going to play a significant role in smart health-care and
Summary
Smart health-care enables advanced diagnostic instruments to provide advanced treatment for the patients and smart health-care devices to enhance the quality of health-care by providing vital signs in real-time. In smart-health care, IoT can improve several applications, including asset management in hospitals, behavioural change monitoring, remote monitoring, treatment compliance monitoring, assisted living, smarter medication, and telemedicine [5]. These applications will play an important role in the near future medical business. In 5G networks, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and IoT are expected to be the main pillars of smart health-care [26]. 5G networks are being designed to be flexible and versatile to support new applications, which require high data rate, and other requirements, including massive connectivity, dense deployment, reliability, low-latency, high energy efficiency, and long-range communication to support IoT-based smart health-care applications Besides network densification and support for a massive number of IoT devices, 5G networks are expected to provide a higher data rate. 5G networks are being designed to be flexible and versatile to support new applications, which require high data rate, and other requirements, including massive connectivity, dense deployment, reliability, low-latency, high energy efficiency, and long-range communication to support IoT-based smart health-care applications
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