A streaming management CSCW consultation system for telemedicine

Abstract

The teleconsultation is one kind of applications in the telemedicine system. It provides an environment to the physicians who at different places for discussing and diagnosing the disease cases. For implementing these functions, the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is adopted in the teleconsultation system. The typical CSCW functions include video and voice conferencing, interactive information exchange, shared workspace, and drawing tools, etc. In order to utilize the resource of network efficiently during the teleconsultation, the data in CSCW should be transmitted by different strategies according to their characteristics. In this paper, we propose a streaming management mechanism for CSCW consultation system used in telemedicine. The mechanism designed by classifying the CSCW data and assigning them to the proper priorities according to their characteristics. Therefore, the mechanism can improve the system performance and provide a better transmission quality.