Table 4.
Summary of numerous scenarios for smart health-care.
| Scenario | Drivers | Communication Technologies |
Required Latency |
Required Data Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M2M Wearables | Connection for data gathering |
NB-IoT (interconnected devices) LoRa (sensor applications) Zigbee (data collection) Bluetooth (D2D sensors) |
10–700 ms | Few Kbps to Mbps |
| Digital Hospital | Communication inside building |
Wi-Fi | 10–100 ms | Few Mbps |
| Emergency Medical Services |
Emergency Communication and High-speed reply |
LTE LTE-A LTE-A Pro |
20–100 ms | From 100 Mbps to 3 Gbps |
| Remote Surgery | URLLC service between many locations |
5G | 20–30 ms | Few Gbps |
| Tactile Communication |
URLLC (Ultra-reliable and low latency communications), eMBB (enhanced Mobile Broadband) |
5G, 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth | sub-ms | Few Gbps |
| Combination of all scenarios |
Communication, latency, bandwidth, applications |
5G, 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth |
up-to few ms | Few Mbps to 3 Gbps |