• 산업공학
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.246-256
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• 2010

As wireless and mobile technologies have advanced significantly, lots of large sized healthcare organizations have implemented so called mobile hospital (m-Hospital) which provides a location independent and point of care (POC) clinical environment. Implementation of m-Hospital enhances quality of care because health professionals such as physicians and nurses can use hospital information systems at the very place where patients are located without any delay. This paper presents a real-time patient monitoring system based on wireless network technologies. A general framework for the patient monitoring process is introduced and the architecture and components of the proposed monitoring system is described. The system collects and analyzes biometric signals of in-patients who suffer from cancer. Specifically, it continuously monitors oxygen saturation of patients in bed and alarms health professionals instantly when an abnormal status of the patient is detected. The monitoring system has been used and clinically verified in a university hospital.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제52권8호
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• pp.443-451
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• 2003

Many attempts have been made for the health and lives of patients at a remote site. but little attention has been given to emergency system using wireless or other intelligent networks. In this paper, shown is a remote emergency system which can be used in an ambulance. It possibly gives a great help to the patients who may lose their lives, in other words, gives pre-hospital cure to them being sent to the hospital. Doctors or specialists are able to give a quick help which may give a new life to patients. This system deal with very important patient's data-ECG, SpO$_2$, blood pressure, biomedical signal data etc. - as other emergency system. A good performance better than other system is many but shortly spoken as follows. First, this system is user friendly system activated in windows 2000 environment. Second, MPEG4 and ECG data sent to the other station for specilists can give a pre-hospital cure to patients in advance. Third, there exist effective algorithms to operate this system. Fourth, this system has been made with software mostly, so this system can be easily embedded in IBM compatible computer. In addition to this performance, for the better and reliable system, various tests were proceeded and recursively tested. Tests were made in EV-DO wireless network and Local Area Network. This mobile-fixed remote emergency system using wireless network like EV-DO network will give a great usage to needed area.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.67-70
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• 2006

A distributed healthcare monitoring system prototype for clinical and trauma patients was developed, using wireless sensor network node. The proposed system aimed to measure various vital physiological health parameters like ECG and body temperature of patients and elderly persons, and transfer his/her health status wirelessly in Ad-hoc network to remote base station which was connected to doctor's PDA/PC or to a hospital's main Server using wireless sensor node. The system also aims to save the cost of healthcare facility for patients and the operating power of the system because sensor network is deployed widely and the distance from sensor to base station was shorter than in general centralized system. The wireless data communication will follow IEEE 802.15.4 frequency communication with ad-hoc routing thus enabling every motes attached to patients, to form a wireless data network to send data to base-station, providing mobility and convenience to the users in home environment.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.562-566
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• 2011

As telecommunication technologies in telemedicine services are developed, the expeditious development of wireless and mobile networks has stimulated wide applications of mobile electronic healthcare systems. However, security is an essential system requirement since many patients have privacy concerns when it comes to releasing their personal information over the open wireless channels. Due to the invisible feature of mobile signals, hackers have easier access to hospital networks than wired network systems. This may result in several security incidents unless security protocols are well prepared. In this paper, we analyzed authentication and authorization procedures for healthcare system architecture to apply secure M-health systems in the hospital environment. From the analyses, we estimate optimal requirements as a countermeasure to its vulnerabilities.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.821-822
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• 2006

Ubiquitous healthcare monitoring and measuring system based on wireless sensor network was implemented and tested. The system can measure the ECG and body temperature of patients or elderly persons and transfer the data wirelessly in ad-hoc network to remote base-station connected to doctor's PDA/PC or hospital server, using wireless sensor motes. The data obtained can be analyzed by doctors and care providers to monitor a health status of patient in real time environment. To prove the capabilities of the wireless sensor network platform for ubiquitous healthcare applications, the performance of our monitoring and measuring system was tested with positive results.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2013

병원과 같은 의료센터에서 이동하는 환자들의 상태를 효과적이며 실시간으로 감지하기 위해서는 다양한 무선통신망 프로토콜과 네트워크 상황을 고려해야 한다. 802.11a, 802.11g, direct sequence와 같은 무선통신 프로토콜들은 각각의 장단점이 있으며 모바일 노드의 개수나 전파도달 거리등 다양한 요소들이 망의 성능에 영향을 줄 수 있다. 특히, 환자들의 상태를 뇌파전송(EEG)을 통해 감지하기 때문에 이러한 데이터 특성도 고려하여 네트워크 토폴로지를 구성하였다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 환자의 EEG 데이터를 효율적으로 전송할 수 있는 무선통신망을 설계하고 이를 Opnet 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 시뮬레이션한 뒤 그 결과를 이용하여 성능을 분석하였다. EEG를 전송하는 무선네트워크 환경에서는 전반적으로 802.11g의 성능이 우수한 것으로 나타났으며 토폴로지의 구성요소에 따라 결과의 특성에 다소 차이가 있었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.1404-1414
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• 2016

Cross-layer design is a concept, which captures the dependencies and interactions and enables information sharing among layers in order to improve the network performance and security. There are two key challenges in wireless networks, lossy features of links and power assumption of network nodes. Cross-layer design of congestion control and power allocation in wireless lossy networks has been studied in the existing literature; however, there has been no contribution proposed in the literature that exploits the path diversity. In this paper, we are motivated to develop a cross-layer design of congestion control and power allocation, which takes into account lossy features of wireless links and transmission powers of network nodes and can be implemented in a distributed manner. Numerical simulation is conducted to illustrate the performance of our proposed algorithm and the comparison with current alternative approaches.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.482-485
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• 2007

무선컴퓨팅에서의 최근 동향은 모바일능력을 향상시키고, 응용범위의 필요성에 적합한 새로운 접근 방법을 개발하는데 초점이 모아지고 있다. 이 논문은 환자의 무선의료 소자로부터 무선으로 데이터를 받고 반응하고 그 셀룰러 네트워크를 활용하여 의료센터로 보내는 기능을 가진 IEEE802.15.4 무선 CDMA기반의 헬스케어 시스템에 관한 것이다. 모바일 응용시스템은 무선센서네트워크와 셀룰러 네트워크사이에서 의료데이터를 받고 보내는 것을 조절하는 미들웨어 뿐만 아니라 위치에 상관없이 휴대전화로 환자의 헬스상태를 연속적으로 모니터링하고 분석하는 인터페이스를 제공한다. 따라서 이 시스템은 원격 헬스모니터링을 가능하게 하고 IEEE802.15.4 무선네트워크와 병원이외의 지역에서의 CDMA 네트워크사이에서 원격 헬스모니터링과 끊김없는 메디컬데이터 연결을 제공한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.337-342
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• 2012

The medical industries are integrated with information technology with mobile devices and wireless communication. The advent of mobile healthcare systems can benefit patients and hospitals, by not only providing better quality of patient care, but also by reducing administrative and medical costs for both patients and hospitals. Security issues present an interesting research topic in wireless and pervasive healthcare networks. As information technology is developed, many organizations such as government agencies, public institutions, and corporations have employed an information system to enhance the efficiency of their work processes. For the past few years, healthcare organizations throughout the world have been adopting health information systems (HIS) based on the wireless network infrastructure. As a part of the wireless network, a mobile agent has been employed at a large scale in hospitals due to its outstanding mobility. Several vulnerabilities and security requirements related to mobile devices should be considered in implementing mobile services in the hospital environment. Secure authentication and protocols with a mobile agent for applying ubiquitous sensor networks in a healthcare system environment is proposed and analyzed in this paper.

• 센서학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.362-370
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• 2006

The wireless sensor network (WSN) based ECG and body temperature measuring system for ubiquitous health-care were designed and developed. The system was composed of a wireless sensor network node, base station and server computer for the continuous monitoring of ECG signals and body temperatures of patients at home or hospital. ECG signal and body temperature data, important vital signals which are commonly used in clinical and trauma care, were displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI). The data transfer from sensor nodes on patients' body to server computer was accomplished through a base-station connected to a server computer using Zigbee compatible IEEE802.15.4 standard wireless communication. Real-time as well as historical, ECG data of elderly persons or patients, can also be retrieved and played back to assist the diagnosis. The ubiquitous health care system presented in this study can effectively reduce social medical expenses, which will be increased greatly in the coming aging society.