UAV-enabled healthcare architecture: Issues and challenges — Ullah 2019

By acting as wireless relays to enhance connectivity with ground networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a tremendous deal of promise to change the automobile, energy, and healthcare industries in the future. They can gather and interpret real-time data by linking the Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet of Vehicles, and existing network infrastructures including body area networks (BANs) and clouds with distant servers. In this post, we support and promote the idea of using UAVs to gather data. We provide a UAV-based architecture to connect with BANs in a reliable and power-efficient way to show the viability of the concept. The concept of wakeup-radio-based communication between a UAV and several BANs is adopted by the suggested architecture. By assigning various priority to the hubs or gateways, we examine the throughput and delay performance of the suggested protocol. The suggested design could be helpful in rural or disaster-affected places where BANs have limited or no access to traditional wireless communication infrastructure. It could also help vehicular networks by keeping track of drivers' physiological status. While we establish effective procedures for UAV-based data collecting in smart healthcare systems, we also highlight open research topics and challenges.

Ullah, S., Kim, K.-I., Kim, K. H., Imran, M., Khan, P., Tovar, E., & Ali, F. (2019). UAV-enabled Healthcare Architecture: Issues and challenges. Future Generation Computer Systems, 97, 425–432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.01.028