218778

CoronaCare: Real-Time MEC-Based Healthcare Infrastructure for Monitoring COVID-19 in 5G Networks

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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• Cloud computing and Big Data.

Abstract

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease pandemic in 2019, social distancing and quarantining have become normal practices all over the world. Frequent hospital contact visits are discouraged due to the full adoption of the above control practices. Contact-based hospital visits are now considered non-obligatory due to rapid technological advances in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, healthcare systems, and smart home automation. To this end, a real-time healthcare infrastructure called (CoronaCare) is proposed in this paper for monitoring patients' health status and receiving doctors' prescriptions while staying at home. The doctors can diagnose illnesses using the physiological health parameters collected remotely from patients through a live video conferencing-based interactive system that enables healthcare professionals to discuss with patients and help them. It would collect real-time symptom data from smartphone videos. The system is based on Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) as an IoT infrastructure and Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) in 5G cellular networks structure which enables high bandwidth and ultra-low latency for efficient patients-doctors dual real-time communication. The system is simulated and the results demonstrate high throughput and low latency as the evaluation of service time is approximately 2 seconds and the average utilization of Virtual Machines (VMs) is approximately 98% for different edge computing architectures which effectively improve the system performance.

DOI

10.21608/mjeer.2021.75712.1035

Keywords

COVID-19 pandemic, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), 5G mobile network, Real-time healthcare platform, Internet of Things (IoT)

Authors

First Name

Nariman

Last Name

Bauomy

MiddleName

Abdel-Salam

Affiliation

Electronics and Communications Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering, Canadian International College (CIC), Giza, Egypt

Email

nariman_abdelsalam@cic-cairo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-3295-6408

Volume

31

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

31199

Issue Date

2022-01-01

Receive Date

2021-05-08

Publish Date

2022-01-01

Page Start

9

Page End

20

Print ISSN

1687-1189

Online ISSN

2682-3535

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https://mjeer.journals.ekb.eg/article_218778.html

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1,088

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Publication Title

Menoufia Journal of Electronic Engineering Research

Publication Link

https://mjeer.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

CoronaCare: Real-Time MEC-Based Healthcare Infrastructure for Monitoring COVID-19 in 5G Networks

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023