QoHealth

QoE Optimalisation for Health Tele-monitoring and Tele-treatment Systems with Constrained QoS

Inevitably healthcare goes mobile – providing health tele-monitoring and tele-treatment services to patients anywhere-anytime. However, these services rely their delivery on the underlying wireless networks with a constrained Quality of Service (QoS) provisions resulting in a long data delays or high data losses. As the end-user of such services is a healthcare practitioner taking a clinical decision based on the application data acquired from a mobile patient, the overall success of a tele-monitoring or tele-treatment service delivery depends on the practitioner's Quality of Experience (QoE), i.e., if the practitioner is able to make an accurate clinical decision given the quality of data.

The goal of the project is to first quantify and then optimize the healthcare practitioner's QoE given a network with constrained QoS, and given a decision space for different application-protocol stack implementation and for application-data compression algorithms used when sending the data from the patient to the practitioner. The final solution for the QoE optimization will be implemented with the MobiHealth™ system; an existing, fully operational research system providing tele-monitoring and tele-treatment services to mobile patients.