Real-Time Tele-Auscultation Consultation Services over the Internet: Effects of the Internet Quality of Service

Real-time transferring of the haptic sense over the Internet is quite a challenging task. This paper outlines the proposed protocols for transferring haptic streams over the Internet. Moreover, it describes the Quality of Service requirements that a network has to fulfill in order to successfully use haptic interfaces with high update rates over the Internet. Extensive simulations and experiments for the performance evaluation of transport protocols for real-time transferring haptic data are carried out. Complements between simulation and real world experiments are discussed. The metrics that are measured for the performance evaluation are delay, jitter, throughput, efficiency, packet loss and one proposed by the authors, packet arrival deviation. The simulation tests reveal which protocols could be used for the transfer of real-time haptic data over the Internet.

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Multicast of Multimedia Data

Multimedia Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-953-3.ch124 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 1781-1788

Author(s):

Christos Bouras ◽

Apostolos Gkamas ◽

Dimitris Primpas ◽

Kostas Stamos

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Real Time ◽

Heterogeneous Network ◽

Multimedia Data ◽

The Other ◽

The Internet ◽

Service Guarantees ◽

Tcp Friendly ◽

Real Time Applications

The heterogeneous network environment that Internet provides to real time applications as well as the lack of sufficient QoS (Quality of Service) guarantees, many times forces applications to embody adaptation schemes in order to work efficiently. In addition, any application that transmits data over the Internet should have a friendly behaviour towards the other flows that coexist in today’s Internet and especially towards the TCP flows that comprise the majority of flows. We define as TCP friendly flow, a flow that consumes no more bandwidth than a TCP connection, which is traversing the same path with that flow (Pandhye 1999).

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Toward Distributed QoS Driven Wireless Messaging Infrastructure

Simulation in Computer Network Design and Modeling ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-0191-8.ch018 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 377-391

Author(s):

Souheil Khaddaj ◽

Bippin Makoond

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Real Time ◽

Video Transmission ◽

Voice Over Ip ◽

The Internet ◽

Banking Services ◽

Quality Aspects ◽

Mobile Accessibility ◽

Mobile Market

The Telecoms market is demanding more services which involve an increased mobile accessibility to the Internet, real time video transmission, real time games, Voice over IP (VOIP), and business critical transactions such as billing transactions and banking services. Meeting these challenges requires the mobile operators to change the way they design their telephony and messaging systems. As the mobile market moves to become more service centric, rather than technology centric, Quality of Service (QoS) has grown to become imperative, since in the Telecoms innovative services are very often short lived, where the quality aspects of a system and the provided services contribute as key differentiators. Thus, the main focus of this chapter is based around the QoS issues which have led to the consideration of a distributed messaging model to address the challenges faced in the Telecoms industry.

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Multicast of Multimedia Data

Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch045 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 316-322

Author(s):

Christos Bouras ◽

Apostolos Gkamas ◽

Dimitris Primpas ◽

Kostas Stamos

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Real Time ◽

Heterogeneous Network ◽

Multimedia Data ◽

The Other ◽

The Internet ◽

Service Guarantees ◽

Tcp Friendly ◽

Real Time Applications

The heterogeneous network environment that Internet provides to real time applications as well as the lack of sufficient QoS (Quality of Service) guarantees, many times forces applications to embody adaptation schemes in order to work efficiently. In addition, any application that transmits data over the Internet should have a friendly behaviour towards the other flows that coexist in today’s Internet and especially towards the TCP flows that comprise the majority of flows. We define as TCP friendly flow, a flow that consumes no more bandwidth than a TCP connection, which is traversing the same path with that flow (Pandhye 1999).

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Current Experiences with Internet Telepathology and Possible Evolution in the Next Generation of Internet Services

Analytical Cellular Pathology ◽

10.1155/2000/836847 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 21 (3-4) ◽

pp. 127-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

V. Della Mea ◽

C. A. Beltrami

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Real Time ◽

Daily Practice ◽

Video On Demand ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Internet Protocols ◽

Web Based ◽

Use Of Internet

The last five years experience has definitely demonstrated the possible applications of the Internet for telepathology. They may be listed as follows: (a) teleconsultation via multimedia e‐mail; (b) teleconsultation via web‐based tools; (c) distant education by means of World Wide Web; (d) virtual microscope management through Web and Java interfaces; (e) real‐time consultations through Internet‐based videoconferencing. Such applications have led to the recognition of some important limits of the Internet, when dealing with telemedicine: (i) no guarantees on the quality of service (QoS); (ii) inadequate security and privacy; (iii) for some countries, low bandwidth and thus low responsiveness for real‐time applications. Currently, there are several innovations in the world of the Internet. Different initiatives have been aimed at an amelioration of the Internet protocols, in order to have quality of service, multimedia support, security and other advanced services, together with greater bandwidth.The forthcoming Internet improvements, although induced by electronic commerce, video on demand, and other commercial needs, are of real interest also for telemedicine, because they solve the limits currently slowing down the use of Internet. When such new services will be available, telepathology applications may switch from research to daily practice in a fast way.

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