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A reliable communications architecture for real-time IP mobile applications

Published: 01 March 2009 Publication History

Abstract

While the availability of a variety of wireless access technologies already provides users with ubiquitous access to critical content and applications, ensuring a satisfactory Quality of Service (QoS) and high availability further requires reliable delivery schemes that optimally use the available bandwidth. This paper presents a novel architecture to support adaptive real-time IP applications. It includes a layer of abstraction to isolate the application from the actual transport channels. It also uses a message-based protocol to improve communications reliability. Adaptation mechanisms are introduced and validated using a healthcare application. Experimental results are reported that demonstrate the viability of the approach.

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cover image International Journal of Mobile Communications
International Journal of Mobile Communications  Volume 7, Issue 4
April 2009
120 pages
ISSN:1470-949X
EISSN:1741-5217
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Inderscience Publishers

Geneva 15, Switzerland

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Published: 01 March 2009

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  1. QoS
  2. communications reliability
  3. e-health
  4. electronic healthcare
  5. embedded software
  6. healthcare technology
  7. heterogeneous wireless networks
  8. internet protocol
  9. mobile communications
  10. multimedia
  11. quality of service
  12. real-time IP applications

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