Networking and Computing in Biomechanical Research: Challenges and Directions

TL;DR

This paper explores how advanced networking and computing technologies can address current challenges in biomechanical research, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and improving research capabilities.

Contribution

It identifies key challenges in biomechanics research and proposes integrating modern networking and computing solutions to enhance research efforts and collaboration.

Findings

Networking technologies can improve data sharing in biomechanics.

Computing solutions facilitate complex biomechanical simulations.

Future research directions promote interdisciplinary collaboration.

Abstract

Biomechanics is a scientific discipline that studies the forces acting on a body and the effects they produce. In this paper, we bring together biomechanists and networking researchers to shed light into how research efforts in biomechanics, primarily related to the study of the human body, can be facilitated through networking and computing technologies, such as edge and cloud computing, Software Defined Networking, and Information-Centric Networking. We first present challenges related to networking and computing that biomechanists face today and we then describe how networking and computing technologies can address them. Finally, we identify directions for future networking research with a focus on biomechanics to facilitate and encourage interdisciplinary collaborations between biomechanists and networking researchers.