Integration of E-health and Internet of Things

Abstract

The proliferation of healthcare-specific Internet of Things (IoT) devices opens up huge opportunities in automated healthcare management systems. Integrating the healthcare system with IoT networks is crucial due to time-critical sensitive applications. State-of-the-art IoT networks transmit the application data through nondeterministic best effort traffic flows, whereas the data from different nodes used to be scheduled in a single shared channel. On the contrary, data from healthcare systems needs to be transmitted in predetermined per-flow deterministic traffic flows to guarantee the quality of service (QoS) in terms of transmission delay and packet drops. To achieve this, the current IoT protocol stack needs to be updated with the support of deterministic traffic flows to ensure the guaranteed QoS in healthcare and medical applications. Hence, this chapter proposes the protocol aspects (scheduling and routing protocol) to integrate E-health with IoT networks to ensure predetermined traffic flows with predictable end-to-end delays. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.