Design and Implementation of 5G eHealth Systems, Technologies, Use Cases and Future Challenges

TL;DR

This paper reviews the design, implementation, and future challenges of 5G eHealth systems, focusing on technologies, use cases like remote health and pandemic containment, and outlining future research directions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of 5G eHealth system design, presents two practical use cases, and discusses future research challenges in the field.

Findings

Developed 5G e-health system prototypes for remote health and COVID-19 containment.

Analyzed key physical, upper, and cross-layer technologies for 5G eHealth.

Identified future research trends and challenges in 5G eHealth systems.

Abstract

Fifth generation (5G) aims to connect massive devices with even higher reliability, lower latency and even faster transmission speed, which are vital for implementing the e-health systems. However, the current efforts on 5G e-health systems are still not enough to accomplish its full blueprint. In this article, we first discuss the related technologies from physical layer, upper layer and cross layer perspectives on designing the 5G e-health systems. We afterwards elaborate two use cases according to our implementations, i.e., 5G e-health systems for remote health and 5G e-health systems for Covid-19 pandemic containment. We finally envision the future research trends and challenges of 5G e-health systems.