Ubiquitous Healthcare by Using Active Monitoring and Edge Computing

Abstract

Ubiquitous healthcare is the mean to provide the whole-people anytime health monitoring and care by using information and communication technologies. How to reduce the deployment and operation cost while keep the care flow in real time manner is a challenge for the service providers. In this paper, a mechanism to perform multi-tiered cloud-based healthcare is proposed. This strategy has benefit both on time and transmission cost efficiency. By conducting the simulation under various service models, the results reveal significant improvement can be achieved on channel bandwidth and transmission time, which brings the guaranteed quality of service for people who need to accept the healthcare service.