Data dissemination strategies for mobile peer-to-peer information systems with applications to healthcare
Author
Özbekoğlu, Fatih Melih
Advisor
Ulusoy, Özgür
Date
2009Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
Peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture is becoming increasingly popular for various
applications, replacing the classical Client-Server architecture. With the
enhanced capabilities of mobile devices (PDAs, mobile phones, etc.) wireless
networks started to take advantage of P2P paradigm along with its properties
like infrastructure-free operation, scalability, balanced and distributed workload.
Mobile peer-to-peer (MP2P) networks refer to the application of P2P architecture
over wireless networks. Problems about dissemination of data in both P2P and
MP2P networks are widely studied, and there are many proposed solutions.
Healthcare information systems are helping clinicians to hold the information
belonging to patients and diseases, and to communicate with each other
since early 1950s. Today, they are widely used in hospitals, being constructed
using Client-Server network architecture. Wireless technologies are also applied
to medical domain, especially for monitoring purposes.
In this thesis, we present and evaluate various data dissemination strategies to
work on a mobile peer-to-peer (MP2P) network designed for a medical healthcare
environment. First, the designed network system is presented along with the network
topology. Then, the proposed data dissemination strategies are described.
And finally, these strategies are evaluated according to the properties and needs
of a medical system.
Keywords
Peer-to-peer architectureMobile Peer-to-peer networks
Data dissemination
Healthcare information systems