Enhancing telemedicine application: Feasible solution from 802.16 MAC layer

Telemedicine has become interesting field of research since decades ago. Rapid development of telecommunication technologies have opened up opportunities for further exploring the use of wireless technology to attains the objectives of telemedicine. In this paper, we explore the feasible solution to enhance telemedicine application performance with the use of wireless broadband technology viz. IEEE 802.16 Wireless Interoperability Microwave Access (WiMAX). Specifically, we try to outline the relevance of key technology residing in WiMAX Media Access Control (MAC) Layer with the fulfillment of medical data transfer requirements, especially for medical image. Thus, the aim of this paper is also to suggest the researches direction in the field of wireless broadband technology in conjunction with telemedicine purpose issues.