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Opportunistic Medical Monitoring Using Bluetooth P2P Networks Dae-Ki Cho, Seung-Hoon Lee, Alexander Chang, Tammara Massey, Chia-Wei Chang, Min-Hsieh Tsai, Majid Sarrafzadeh and Mario Gerla Department of Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles {pinecho, shlee, acmchang, tmassey, orbita, chaii, majid, gerla}@ Abstract—Remote medical monitoring using body sensors and facilitate data delivery using opportunistic ad hoc networking. wireless communications has been gaining attention recently Namely, the data can propagate hop-by-hop through the peers, because of the potential savings in patient care and the equally exploiting their forwarding capacity as well as their motion impressive enhancements of quality of care for mobile individuals. What makes remote medical monitoring feasible are the advances (in some cases, the patient data is mechanically transported in the body sensor technology (non-intrusive sensors embedded to the Access Point (AP) by the peers using a ”data muling” in actuators to monitor vital signs); and in wireless technology technique). (Body LAN, cellular and Wireless LAN). Currently, most medical One of the goals of this paper is to examine the feasibility vests and body LANs connect to the Internet in a point-to- and effectiveness of opportunistic ad hoc networking using point fashion, via the cellular system (say SMS). With the growing popularity of ubiquitous computing and opportunistic Bluetooth and data muling of medical records from patients P2P personal networks, it makes sense to explore beyond the to the Internet