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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Technologies Trend towards 5G Network for Smart Health-Care Using IoT: A Review.

Abdul Ahad, Mohammad Tahir, Muhammad Aman Sheikh, Kazi Istiaque Ahmed, Amna Mughees, Abdullah Numani

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Abdul AhadDepartment of Computing and Information Systems, Sunway University, Selangor 47500, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-3914-2503
Mohammad TahirDepartment of Computing and Information Systems, Sunway University, Selangor 47500, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-6273-4603
Muhammad Aman SheikhDepartment of Computing and Information Systems, Sunway University, Selangor 47500, Malaysia.
Kazi Istiaque AhmedDepartment of Computing and Information Systems, Sunway University, Selangor 47500, Malaysia.
Amna MugheesDepartment of Computing and Information Systems, Sunway University, Selangor 47500, Malaysia.
Abdullah NumaniDepartment of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS University, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-4249-0696

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Smart health-care is undergoing rapid transformation from the conventional specialist and hospital-focused style to a distributed patient-focused manner. Several technological developments have encouraged this rapid revolution of health-care vertical. Currently, 4G and other communication standards are used in health-care for smart health-care services and applications. These technologies are crucial for the evolution of future smart health-care services. With the growth in the health-care industry, several applications are expected to produce a massive amount of data in different format and size. Such immense and diverse data needs special treatment concerning the end-to-end delay, bandwidth, latency and other attributes. It is difficult for current communication technologies to fulfil the requirements of highly dynamic and time-sensitive health care applications of the future. Therefore, the 5G networks are being designed and developed to tackle the diverse communication needs of health-care applications in Internet of Things (IoT). 5G assisted smart health-care networks are an amalgamation of IoT devices that require improved network performance and enhanced cellular coverage. Current connectivity solutions for IoT face challenges, such as the support for a massive number of devices, standardisation, energy-efficiency, device density, and security. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of 5G assisted smart health-care solutions in IoT. We present a structure for smart health-care in 5G by categorizing and classifying existing literature. We also present key requirements for successful deployment of smart health-care systems for certain scenarios in 5G. Finally, we discuss several open issues and research challenges in 5G smart health-care solutions in IoT.

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Delivery of Health CareHumansInternet of ThingsSocial NetworkingTechnology5Gcognitive radioD2DIoTsmart health-care

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PMID32708139
PMCPMC7411917

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