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2. THE 5G-WIRELESS MOBILE-NETWORK microprocessors into objects, allowing communication and
AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS task-performing.
In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing can
The disrupting fifth-generation wireless mobile-network occur using any device, in any location, and in any format.
technology (5G) [7] and the way it will gradually affect the A user interacts with the computer, which can exist in many
Health-services, supported and automated by the Internet of different forms, including laptop computers, tablets and
Things (IoT), constitutes undouptly [8], [9] the most terminals in everyday objects such as a fridge or a pair of
important challenge for the next decade. glasses. The underlying technologies to support ubiquitous
Future 5G networks will be about 100 times faster, non-loss computing include Internet, advanced middleware,
operating system, mobile code, sensors, microprocessors,
of communication should be their central feature and their new I/O and user interfaces, networks, mobile protocols,
major-goal, beyond the dramatically enhanced inter- location and positioning and new materials.
connection of people, is the interoperable and automated
interlacing of any devices, within the same network.
In this part, we shall attempt to present briefly, some of the 2.4. Femtocells
existing or emerging effective and efficient methods, means
and tools, reducing unnecessary cost and facilitating the Femtocells are small, low-power cellular base-stations [13].
smooth integration into a new technological era, related to It is a wireless access point that improves cellular reception
the IoT and the achieving of a globally 5G mobile culture. inside a home, office or even in a Medical Praxis. The
device, which resembles a wireless router, essentially acts
2.1. Mobile IP as a repeater.
The device communicates with the mobile phone and
Mobile IP (MIP) is an Internet Engineering Task Force converts voice calls into voice over IP (VoIP) packets. The
packets are then transmitted over a broadband connection to
(IETF) standard communications protocol that is designed the mobile operator's servers.
to allow mobile device users to move from one network to
another while maintaining a permanent IP address.
Mobile IP for IPv4 is described in IETF RFC 5944, and 2.5. Wireless mesh-networks
extensions are defined in IETF RFC 4721. Mobile IPv6, the
IP mobility implementation for the next generation of the A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications
Internet Protocol, IPv6, is described in RFC 6275 [10]. network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh
topology. It is also a form of wireless ad hoc network. A
2.2. Service-oriented architectures mesh refers to rich interconnection among devices or nodes.
Wireless mesh networks often consist of mesh clients, mesh
routers and gateways [14].
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a style of software
design where services are provided to the other components
by application components, through a communication 2.6. Multimedia-sharing over wireless networks
protocol over a network [11]. The basic principles of
service oriented architecture are independence of vendors, Multimedia-sharing over wireless networks for real-time or
products and technologies. compressed (PACS, ICU, Lab etc.) data-streaming, over
A service is a discrete unit of functionality that can be IP/wireless-networks, for communication or archiving. The
accessed remotely and acted upon and updated availability of low-cost hardware has fostered the
independently, such as retrieving a credit card statement development of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
online. (WMSNs). These networks of wirelessly interconnected
A service has four properties, according to one of many devices are able to ubiquitously retrieve multimedia content
definitions of SOA [11]: such as video and audio streams, still images, and scalar
sensor data from the “environment” [15].
• It logically represents a business activity with a
specified outcome.
• It is self-contained. 2.7. “Green-computing” in wireless-networks
• It is a black-box for its consumers. Green-computing [16] in wireless-networks mobile cloud-
• It may consist of other underlying services. computing, are limiting useless people and material intra-
hospital “circulation”, enabling environmentally friendly
2.3. Ubiquitous-computing and smooth procedures. Standardization, policies and
regulation, for green communications and computing, are
Ubiquitous-computing (or pervasive computing etc.) [12] inevitable, for an ordered and productive employment.
appears anytime and everywhere, by embedding ICTs for “green” buildings enable procedures optimization,
solving energy- and material-waste problems, reducing the

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