Research Article

A Mobile Cloud Computing Framework Integrating Multilevel Encoding for Performance Monitoring in Telerehabilitation

Table 1

Notations used in the process of estimating power consumption for data encoding and transfer. Here for motion telerehabilitation and for respiratory telerehabilitation.

Notation Unit Description

Byte The size of memory occupied by a double value
ā€” Dimension of encoded data of each frame with th encoding scheme
Frame The length of exercise data encoded by the th encoding scheme
ā€” The number of monitored points in the motion. for respiratory monitoring
Byte Size of encoded data at the scheme th
Watt The energy consumed by the mobile device to encode 1 frame at the scheme th
Watt The energy consumed by the mobile device to transfer encoded exercise data to the cloud
Watt The energy consumed by the mobile device to encode entire trajectory at the scheme th
Watt The energy consumed by the mobile device to transfer entire encoded data to the cloud at the scheme th
kbps The speed of uploading data to the server