Energy Efficient Healthcare Monitoring System using 5G Task Offloading

Abstract

Healthcare expenses can be significantly reduced, and lives saved by
enabling the continuous monitoring of patient health remotely using Wireless
Body Sensor Networks (WBSN). However, an energy efficient mobile gateway
(e.g. 5G smartphone) is required which moves with the patient in real time to
process the data from the bio sensors without depleting the battery. This
paper proposes a 5G based healthcare cardiovascular disease Remote
Monitoring system called 5GREM using Electrocardiogram (ECG) bio
sensor as a BSN device. The aim is to monitor and analyse the patient’s heart
rhythms and send emergency alerts during irregularities to the nearest
caregivers, ambulance or physician to minimize heart attacks and heart
failures while saving energy. Since ECG signal execution is computer
intensive, requests from the ECG sensor are either executed locally on the
gateway, offloaded to nearby mobile devices or to the 5G edge while
considering the battery level, CPU level, transmission power, delays and task
fail rate.