In hospital settings, the quality and effectiveness of shift handover are critical for continuous and high quality patient care. This paper explores nurses’ knowledge sharing problems during shift handover in 6 Australian hospitals. A single focus group was conducted to collect empirical evidence of knowledge sharing problems during shift handover, across the hospitals. Findings indicate a broa...

This paper presents seamless handover schemes survey based on layer approach. Efficient handover scheme is very important in order to minimize the handover latency in mobile network. Latency is mainly affected when new IP address has to be obtained in layer 3 and layer 4 handover mechanisms because this is processed by software. Therefore, we have to focus on the exact mechanism to obtain new I...

The Royal College of Physicians state that 'handover, particularly of temporary 'on-call' responsibility, has been identified as a point at which errors are likely to occur' [1]. Working a weekend on-call covering medical wards is often busy and stressful for all junior doctors, with added pressure in trying to identify patients and tasks amongst several different pieces of paper and making imp...

This paper focuses on a measurement-based comparison of the handover for different mobility protocols: Mobile IPv4, Mobile IPv6 and Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6. The paper studies the handover using active and passive measurements computing the handover latency, packet losses and the provided QoS level in a real testbed. Our experimental results show that there are severe QoS fluctuations bef...

Recent years in the field of mobile communications have brought two significant requirements – seamless service delivery and Quality of Service provisioning. Seamless mobility goes hand in hand with Mobile IPv6 protocol and various handover schemes of this protocol are trying to solve the QoS issue. In this paper we are presenting a method for evaluation of the Layer 3 handover schemes from the...

MANEMO is the integration of Network Mobility (NEMO) and Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). A MANEMO node has an interface to both a MANET and NEMO network, and therefore should choose the optimal interface for packet delivery, however such a handover between interfaces will introduce packet loss. We define the steps necessary for a MANEMO handover, using Mobile IP and NEMO to signal the new bindin...

AIM AND OBJECTIVES to understand the purpose, impact and experience of nurse handover from patient and staff perspectives. BACKGROUND poor communication is increasingly recognised as a major factor in healthcare errors. Handover is a key risk point. Little consensus exists regarding the practice in nursing but the trend is towards bedside handover. Research on patient and staff experiences of...

This paper proposes a dynamic IP address configuration (DAC) scheme for mSCTP handover, which exploits the information from the link layer to support SCTP handover between heterogeneous access networks. The proposed DAC scheme enables a mobile terminal to automatically add a new IP address in the newly visited region, change the primary path, and delete the old IP address so as to support the m...

Femtocells, as known as HeNB is the tremendous network technology in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in order to fulfill the upcoming demand of high data rates. However, Femtocells deployment may cause the incidence of frequent and unnecessary handover due to the movement of the user. As Femtocells coverage area is very small and deployed randomly, there are many possible targets Femtocel...

Femtocell networks that use Home evolved NodeB (HeNB) and existing networks for backhaul connectivity can fulfill the upcoming demand for high data rates in wireless communication systems as well as extend the coverage area. In this paper we seem handover between femtocell and macrocell as a heterogeneous handover and apply the Host Identity Protocol (HIP) with Media Independent Handover (MIH) ...