Telemedicine Available Bandwidth Estimation Simulation Model for Effective E-Health Services: Categories, Requirements and Network Application

Available bandwidth is a time-dependent variable that defines the spare bandwidth in an end-to-end network path. Estimating available bandwidth (EAB) is an important and challenging task for providing QoS support in telemedicine networks. The aim of this study is to produce a simulation model that could assist the organization or country in estimating the network bandwidth requirements of its logistics for the telemedicine application, depending on the ability of exchange multimedia data. The study presents the simulation model for estimating the unexploited bandwidth in the system and simulation results of wired and wireless networks for the unused capacity in the normal network and the real network focused on finding out whether the egress rate of the telemedicine packets should be within the ingress rate. The results and the categories of the telemedicine packets the evaluation highlight accuracy that wired network environment provides more estimation available bandwidth comparable measurement to wireless networks.