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...tions span the areas of emergencyshealthcare, homecare, patient tele-monitoring, telecardiology, tele-radiology, tele-pathology, tele-dermatology,stele-ophthalmology, tele-psychiatry and tele-surgery =-=[3]-=-.sThese applications enable the provision of prompt and expertsmedical services in underserved locations, like rural healthscenters, ambulances, ships, trains, airplanes as well as atshomes (homecare)...

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...sThese applications enable the provision of prompt and expertsmedical services in underserved locations, like rural healthscenters, ambulances, ships, trains, airplanes as well as atshomes (homecare) =-=[4]-=-. Tele-medicine provided via satellitescommunications is an evolving area of healthcare servicessand provision of medical information, which utilizes the newsdevelopments in satellite networks such as...

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...etworking solution for telemedicine platforms, since theyshave the advantage of worldwide coverage and offer a varietysof data transfer rates, even though satellite links involve highsoperating costs =-=[5]-=-. However, with the application of thesDVB-RCS technology, the operating costs of satellite linksstend to be significantly reduced.sIn the context of this paper, an integrated wide-area telemedicine p...

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...emonstrated and discussed in [7], as well as to evaluate thesperformance of the DVB-RCS platform under differentsconfigurations, a simulation campaign is regarded as one ofsthe optimum solutions [8], =-=[9]-=-. A simulation was developed tosexamine the aforementioned setup using OPNET. Somesnecessary simplifications were taken into account during thesdevelopment of the platform. The most important amongsth...

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...ut necessary satellite bandwidth (satellitestransponder) in order to provide SIT and DVB-RCS Hubsinterconnection. The only limitation of the network is thessatellite coverage footprint (coverage map) =-=[6]-=-.sThe platform may consist of one or more Remote Sites (RSs)splaced in several remote areas. Every RS can be equippedswith appropriate communication devices (i.e.svideoconference units, videophones, p...

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...upssdemonstrated and discussed in [7], as well as to evaluate thesperformance of the DVB-RCS platform under differentsconfigurations, a simulation campaign is regarded as one ofsthe optimum solutions =-=[8]-=-, [9]. A simulation was developed tosexamine the aforementioned setup using OPNET. Somesnecessary simplifications were taken into account during thesdevelopment of the platform. The most important amo...

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...The experimentssessentially involve tele-monitoring, videoconference andsmedical/physical data transfer. Actually, two set of tests tooksplace. The experimental results are discussed and evaluated ins=-=[7]-=-. The first set involved (video) monitoring of the patientssand medical data transfer, where the SIT at Site X wassconnected to a PC, while the SIT at Site Y was connected tosthe output of a video ser...