Abstract:
Telemedicine is one of the fastest growing fields with
several innovations happening in managed health-care.
With Internet and its infrastructures playing important
role in the success of this field, it is not advisable to run
some of the critical applications like high quality audio
and video involved in telemedicine without proper Quality
of Service (QoS) built on to the network. This paper
focuses on two telemedicine setups that have been
implemented on different backbone technologies. The first
case discusses a virtual critical care unit that is setup for
communication on an Asynchronous Trarnfer Mode
(ATM) backbone and a possible model on how QoS for
important traffic streams can be achieved in ATM The
second case discusses a minimal access operation that
was remotely conducted on a patient with the help of
telerobotics on a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
setup and provides a possible solution for achieving
quality of service through MPLS in that scenario.
