Wireless and Pervasive Healthcare: Applications, Requirements, and Research Problems

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  • Upkar Varshney
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With an increasingly mobile society and the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless networks, the wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging healthcare applications. In this tutorial, we present pervasive healthcare applications and requirements, and discuss how the current and emerging wireless and mobile technologies can be used to support these applications.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005