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Fog-assisted healthcare framework for smart hospital environment

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The technological revolution brought by the Internet of Things (IoT) has mostly relied on cloud computing. However, to satisfy the demands of time-sensitive services in the medical industry, fog computing, a novel computational platform based on the cloud computing paradigm, has shown to be a useful tool by extending cloud resources to the network’s edge. The current paper examines the role of the fog paradigm in the domain of healthcare decision-making, focusing on its primary advantages in terms of latency, network utilization, and power consumption. A fog-computing-based health assessment framework is developed in the current paper. Moreover, based on effective performance parameters, the performance is evaluated and depicted. The results show that the presented strategy can reduce network congestion of the communication network by analyzing information at the local node. Moreover, increased security on health information can be maintained at local fog node, and enhanced data protection from unauthorized access can be acquired. Fog computing offers greater insights into the health condition of patients with enhanced accuracy, precision, reliability, and stability.

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This study is supported via funding from Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University under the project number (2023/01/26407)

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  1. Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia

    Tariq Ahamed Ahanger

  2. College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

    Abdulaziz Aldaej

  3. Department of Biomedical Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

    Yousef Alharbi

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Ahanger, T.A., Aldaej, A. & Alharbi, Y. Fog-assisted healthcare framework for smart hospital environment. Pers Ubiquit Comput 28, 599–613 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01802-y

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