Performance Evaluation of an Enhanced Uplink 3.5G System for Mobile Healthcare Applications

Table 3

Typical medical data in emergency services in case of accidents.

Digital device	Signal or image resolution		Data rate required
	Temporal/spatial (no. of samples per second)	Contrast/resolution (bits per sample)
Location information	1	×16	<10 kbps
Digital blood pressure monitor (sphygmomanometer)	1	×16	<10 kbps
Digital thermometer	5	×16	<10 kbps
Respiration	50	×6	<10 kbps
Digital audio stethoscope (heart sound)	10000	×12	∼120 kbps
Electrocardiogram ECG (3 leads)	1250	×12	∼15 kbps
VoIP communication of paramedics with hospital experts	—	—	∼64 kbps
Compressed and full motion video (telemedicine)	—	—	384 kbps to 1.544 Mb/s (speed)