Paper Info
Title
Utilizing Opportunistic Social Networks for Remote Patient Monitoring in Rural Areas.
Abstract
The use of Internet connectivity for remote patient monitoring is often unsuitable for rural communities where Internet infrastructure is lacking, and power outages are frequent. This paper explores the rural connectivity problem in the context of remote patient monitoring and analyzes the feasibility of utilizing a delay tolerant network (DTN) architecture that leverages the social behaviors of rural community members to enable out-of-range monitoring of patients in rural communities without local transportation systems. The feasibility is characterized using delivery latency and delivery rate with the number of participants and the number of sources as variables. The architecture is evaluated for Owingsville, KY using U.S. Census Bureau, the National Cancer Institute's, and IPUMS ATUS sample data. The findings show that within a 24 hour window, there is an exponential relationship between the number of participants in the network and the delivery rate with a minimal delivery of 38.7%, a maximal delivery rate of a 100% and an overall average delivery rate of 89.8%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3364544.3364831
BuildSys '19: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation New York NY USA November, 2019
Keywords
Field
DocType
rural remote patient monitoring,mHealth,delay tolerant networks,mobile ad hoc networks,device-to-device,opportunistic communication,bluetooth
Mobile ad hoc network,Social network,Delay-tolerant networking,Remote patient monitoring,Computer science,Rural area,mHealth,Internet access,Operations management,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-7015-8
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Esther Max-Onakpoya142.75
Shina Madamori210.37
Corey E. Baker310.37