Analysis of delays in medical applications of nanonetworks

Abstract

Nanonetworks is the innovative direction of Internet of Things (IoT). Nanonetwork's technologies promises extensive opportunities for creating innovative applications and it is attracts researchers from different fields of science. Healthcare is one of the fields in which nanonetworks promise technological spurt. For the effective functioning of the medical applications of nanonetworks it is necessary to provide high quality of service (QoS) for end-to-end traffic. In this article we analyzed network delay — one of the most important QoS parameters. Maintenance of low delays especially important for real-time medical applications. The article examines the factors that defines requirements to delay for real-time medical applications as well as components of delay at various levels of the network.