Supporting availability evaluation in MCC-based mHealth planning

The mHealth wearable devices have been adopted in the last few years and have improved the human well-being. However, mobile devices are still quite resource–constrained and mHealth applications requires high availability. Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is one alternative to aid mobile devices by providing remote powerful infrastructure. The objective of this Letter is twofold: (i) to identify the most important components of a mHealth system through parametric sensitivity analysis observing the metric availability. (ii) to propose and design an extended mHealth architecture with higher system availability and lower downtime period. The proposed solution reduced the downtime in 41% compared to the baseline architecture.