Design of mobile telemedicine systems using GSM and IS-54 cellular telephone standards

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the design of mobile telemedical systems using cellular telephone channels. A mobile telemedicine communication system was studied using both the GSM and the IS-54 standards, which are the most widely used commercial cellular telephone systems in Europe and North America, respectively. A simulation using a photoplethesmography signal showed successful transmssion of data with bit error rates of less than 10-7 at the receiver for the IS-54 standard and less than 10-5 for the GSM standard, depending on the mobile channel conditions used.