Spectrum Sharing Strategy for Radio Frequency-Based Medical Services

Abstract

Modern medical devices exploit radio frequency (RF) communication to remotely perform vital communication services for medical purposes. Real-time monitoring of health parameters, transferring of patient data to a data center or a cell phone, and controlling other medical devices are some of the important applications in medical science which exploit wireless communications. Some wireless devices also allow the mobility of patients or medical equipment on which these devices are mounted. Examples of such communication-enabled medical services are Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS) [1] and Medical Device Radiocommunications Service (MedRadio) [2] .