BACKGROUND Patient participation in handover is one aspect of patient-centred care, where patients are considered partners in care. Understanding the patient perspective provides a foundation for nurses to tailor their bedside handovers to reflect patients' thoughts and beliefs and encourage their active involvement in decision-making. AIM This study examined patients' perspectives of partici...

In order to achieve seamless handover for real-time applications in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) of the next-generation network, a multiprotocol combined handover mechanism is proposed in this paper. We combine SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), FMIP (Fast Mobile IPv6 Protocol) and MIH (Media Independent Handover) protocols by cross-layer design and optimize those protocols’ signaling flow...

Load balancing (LB) technology in mobile wireless communication networks has been discussed largely. The current LB algorithms have mainly adjusted the handover parameters without considering the inherent relationship of the handover parameters. In the paper, by considering the internal relationship of specific offset of handover, the constraint of the specific offset of handover was simplified...

enabling seamless connectivity in heterogeneous wireless networks and pervasive use of smartphones in daily life require high data speed and always best-connected services. The always best-connected services require fast and efficient vertical handover management. However, providing vertical handover management in heterogeneous wireless networks is a difficult task. Moreover, various issues are...

Abstract Aims Handover between teams is a requirement colleagues to ensure patient safety. An electronic weekend handover Friday noon with the whole surgical team was implemented in 2017. This second cycle close loop. Methods The implementation of ‘Careflow’ software had all been initiated 2017 modernise from paper e-handover. Anonymised questionnaires were sent doctors 6 months following initi...

Wireless information networks need to employ small radio cells to support large user populations. However, this will impose extra burden on network traffic control as a result of frequent handover behavior. Existing approaches to support a high handover rate still have cell loss and cell out-of-sequence penalty while the handover is in progress. This paper proposes a novel handover protocol tha...

In a heterogeneous wireless network, handover techniques are designed to facilitate anywhere/anytime service continuity for mobile users. Consistent best-possible access to a network with widely varying network characteristics requires seamless mobility management techniques. Hence, the vertical handover process imposes important technical challenges. Handover decisions are triggered for contin...

OBJECTIVE Patient handover is an important element of continuity, quality and safety in patient care. Handover without standardized protocols is prone to information loss and might be a possible danger to patient safety. Checklists are established methods that help to structure complex processes in other high-risk fields such as aviation. In the past few years, their implementation has attracte...

In this paper, a synchronization signal appropriate for small cell networks (SCNs), generated by a base station with 3D beamforming, is proposed for efficient handover in SCN. The synchronization signal carries a macro-cell ID (MCID) and virtual-cell ID (VCID) in a hierarchical manner, allowing us to distinguish between an intra-cell handover (virtual cell handover within a cell without changin...

Handover is one of the most important factors that may degrade the performance of TCP connections and real-time applications in wireless data networks. We developed a loss-free handover scheme called LPM (Last Packet Marking) for IEEE 802.16e-based broadband wireless access networks. By integrating MAC and network layer handovers efficiently, LPM minimizes the handover delay and eliminates pack...