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Evaluation of the New e-Health Signaling Model in the USN Environment

Authors:
Adel Mounir Said
Ashraf William Ibrahim

Keywords: e-Health; ubiquitous sensor netowrk; NGN; IMS; SIP

Abstract:
Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) is a conceptual network built over existing physical networks. It makes use of sensed data and provides knowledge services to anyone, anywhere and at anytime, and where the information is generated by using context awareness. In 2010, the ITU-T provided the requirements to support USN applications and services in the Next Generation Network (NGN) environment to exploit the advantages of the core network. One of the main promising markets for the USN application and services is the e-Health. It provides continuous patients’ monitoring and enables a great improvement in medical services. In this paper, the authors provide the evaluation of the e-Health signaling model in the USN environment, which was introduced in a previously published work. The model is based on using the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as a service controller sub-layer for the USN platform. This paper provides a USN based IMS detailed network design for e-Health implementation with emphasizes on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) modification and middleware entities functions. The proposal evaluation was carried using OPNET Modeler for network simulation and proved its applicability and reliability.

Pages: 65 to 72

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2163-9027

ISBN: 978-1-61208-368-1

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014