IEEE 802.16m is an advanced air interface standard which is under development for IMT-Advanced systems, known as 4G systems. IEEE 802.16m is designed to provide a high data rate and a Quality of Service (QoS) level in order to meet user service requirements, and is especially suitable for mobilized environments. There are several factors that have great impact on such requirements. As one of th...

In heterogeneous networks, network selection by nature is a multidimensional problem. Many parameters need to be considered for handover decision making. Apart from handover accuracy and efficiency, an important consideration is the scalability and signaling overhead of such handover algorithms. In this article we propose to break down a Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) based heterogeneous hando...

dear editor, as a current phd student working on my dissertation entitled “developing a nursing handover process program in pediatric ward: an action research,” i interviewed nurses and students and found that they had little knowledge about the ethical and legal principles of nursing handover and expressed their dissatisfaction about this process. one of the reasons for this problem, they expr...

Handovers are a specific kind of multidisciplinary team meeting. Shift handovers and transfers are both regular features of hospital work but there is currently great variation in how such handovers are conducted, presenting a challenging for those seeking to develop technology to support handover. This paper presents the ConStratO model of handover, which captures aspects of the context that i...

This paper introduces and exemplifies a trade-off analysis of safety and security properties in distributed systems. The aim is to support analysis for real-time communication and authentication building blocks in a wireless communication scenario. By embedding an authentication scheme into a real-time communication protocol for safety-critical scenarios, we can rely on the protocol’s individua...

In cellular networks, the contradiction between traffic demands and network resources is very prominent, also mobile users can move inside the heterogeneous networks from cell to another cell. Aiming at solving these issues, efficient handover (HO) mechanisms are more and more concerned to enhance mobility management. In this paper a new handover optimization algorithm for long term evaluation ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to standardize and rationalize the handover, a critical and essential moment in common health care practices, through the realization of an efficient and standardized checklist, which could be used daily to ensure complete, thorough and effective handover. The principal purpose of the implementation of the handover is to reduce errors due to superficial and insuffici...

Mobile Cloud Computing has brought the IT industry to a new level by providing an innovative technique with the help of which one can access anything, anytime from anywhere. It is an industry buzz word since 2009 and a relatively new concept that combines cloud computing, mobile computing and wireless networking. This technology has uplifted the usability experience of mobile users. Over the pa...

Randmaa, M. 2016. Communication and Patient Safety. Transfer of information between healthcare personnel in anaesthetic clinics. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1186. 70 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9489-6. Communication errors are frequent during the perioperative period and cause clinical incidents and adver...