Chissungo, Edmundo and Le, Hanh and Blake, Edwin (2010) An Electronic Health Application for Disaster Recovery, Proceedings of SoICT '10: Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Information and Communication Technology, August 27-28, Hanoi, Vietnam, 134-138.
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Abstract
Natural disasters often destroy the fixed wired communications infrastructure. Therefore relying on such infrastructure after a catastrophe can be risky. Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) can provide wireless network coverage without relying on a wired backbone infrastructure or dedicated access points. In this paper, we focus on using WMNs in disaster recovery areas in order to disseminate information from patient to doctors. We investigate whether we can deploy an electronic-health application on top of an ad hoc peer to peer network. The initial prototype shows that it is feasible. However the application quality varies depending on the number of multi-hops and the applications concurrently running on top of the WMN networks.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Disaster scenario, Wireless mesh networks, peer-to-peer networks, JXTA, E-health Application |
| Subjects: | Applied computing > Life and medical sciences Computer systems organization > Architectures > Distributed architectures |
| Alternate Locations: | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1852611.1852637 |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:33 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/634 |
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