Towards a Peer-to-Peer Communication Model for Mobile Telecare Services

Akio Sashima, Koichi Kurumatani

2016

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a peer-to-peer communication model for a mobile telecare service. It is proposed to reduce the service management costs of a conventional mobile telecare service based on a server-client communication model. The peer-to-peer mobile telecare service consists of a mobile physiological sensor, two smartphones, and a connection management server. In the service, when a caregiver, e.g., family member, requires to know current physiological statuses of a cared person, e.g., elderly person, the smartphone directly sends the sensing data of the cared person to the caregiver’s smartphone without a central data server. To realize the peer-to-peer communication model in mobile phone’s infrastructure, which includes private networks, we propose a communication protocol based on a NAT-traversal technique and a data compression mechanism for preventing packet loss. We have confirmed that the prototype system works well on the current mobile phone’s infrastructure that consists of 4G (LTE) and private networks.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sashima A. and Kurumatani K. (2016). Towards a Peer-to-Peer Communication Model for Mobile Telecare Services . In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: SmartMedDev, (BIOSTEC 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-170-0, pages 542-549. DOI: 10.5220/0005845205420549

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartmeddev16,
author={Akio Sashima and Koichi Kurumatani},
title={Towards a Peer-to-Peer Communication Model for Mobile Telecare Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: SmartMedDev, (BIOSTEC 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={542-549},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005845205420549},
isbn={978-989-758-170-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: SmartMedDev, (BIOSTEC 2016)
TI - Towards a Peer-to-Peer Communication Model for Mobile Telecare Services
SN - 978-989-758-170-0
AU - Sashima A.
AU - Kurumatani K.
PY - 2016
SP - 542
EP - 549
DO - 10.5220/0005845205420549