Computational and Wireless Modeling for Collaborative Virtual Medical Teams

Mobile wireless computing brings about a new paradigm of distributed computing in which communications may be achieved through wireless networks and users can continue computing even as they relocate from one support environment to another. The impact of wireless computing on system design goes beyond the networking level and directly affects data management and data computational paradigms. Infrastructure research on communication and networking is essential for realizing wireless and mobile systems. Equally important, however, is the design and implementation of data management applications for these systems (e.g., wireless virtual teams) a task directly affected by the characteristics of the wireless medium, the limitations of mobile computing devices, and the resulting mobility of resources and computation.