The provision of telemedicine services requires the usage of advanced and reliable
communication techniques to offer diagnostically acceptable Quality of Experience
(QoE) in the delivery of biomedical data between distant locations either using wireline
or wireless access networks. To overcome the restrictions of conventional communication
systems and to address the challenges imposed by wireless multimedia delivery and
adaptation for healthcare applications, the FP7 ICT CONCERTO project proposes a cross-layer
optimized architecture with all the critical building blocks integrated for medical
media content fusion, delivery and access. In this poster we focus on the general
architecture design of CONCERTO and present a sophisticated access network and inter-domain
signalling framework with a distributed decision engine for cross-layer communication
management and adaptation control of quality demanding interactive multimedia healthcare
services.
