HealthStack: Providing an IoT Middleware for Malleable QoS Service Stacking for Healthcare 4.0

• Vinicius F. Rodrigues UNISINOS
• Rodrigo da R. Righi UNISINOS
• Cristiano A. da Costa UNISINOS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcas.2021.16096

Abstract

With smart sensors in hospitals, monitor and process data is crucial to improve medical services. In particular, these devices can assist in making critical decisions that can save lives. In this context, quality of service (QoS) is essential to ensure application data reliability. That said, this article proposes HealthStack, a middleware for operating rooms with automatic QoS and support for real-time data transmission. We also present a QoS strategy based on artificial neurons to select middleware components with critical performance. We developed a prototype of the model and tested it in an actual operating room. The evaluation shows that the strategy improves the average jitter experienced by the application by 90.3%.

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