Title: Equivalent Queue Model Capturing End-to-end Performance in Mobile Networks

Background and Objectives The emergence of high-speed mobile networks providing Internet access has opened up many possibilities for the development of new services in a variety of application domains, including healthcare. A typical example is a service where patients with specific medical problems are equipped with sensors monitoring their medical state on a continuous basis, generating some kind of alarm in case of emergency. This type of applications poses strict constraints on the Quality of Service (QoS), for example in terms of service availability and end-to-end response-times. Typical response-time related performance metrics are end-to-end delay, delay variation and throughput.