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Toward a Fault Tolerant Architecture for Vital Medical-Based Wearable Computing

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Advancements in computers and electronic technologies have led to the emergence of a new generation of efficient small intelligent systems. The products of such technologies might include Smartphones and wearable devices, which have attracted the attention of medical applications. These products are used less in critical medical applications because of their resource constraint and failure sensitivity. This is due to the fact that without safety considerations, small-integrated hardware will endanger patients’ lives. Therefore, proposing some principals is required to construct wearable systems in healthcare so that the existing concerns are dealt with. Accordingly, this paper proposes an architecture for constructing wearable systems in critical medical applications. The proposed architecture is a three-tier one, supporting data flow from body sensors to cloud. The tiers of this architecture include wearable computers, mobile computing, and mobile cloud computing. One of the features of this architecture is its high possible fault tolerance due to the nature of its components. Moreover, the required protocols are presented to coordinate the components of this architecture. Finally, the reliability of this architecture is assessed by simulating the architecture and its components, and other aspects of the proposed architecture are discussed.

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This research (research plan no. 2068) was supported from Razi University of Kermanshah, Iran.

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    Fardin Abdali-Mohammadi, Vahid Bajalan & Abdolhossein Fathi

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Abdali-Mohammadi, F., Bajalan, V. & Fathi, A. Toward a Fault Tolerant Architecture for Vital Medical-Based Wearable Computing. J Med Syst 39, 149 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0347-7

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