distributed medical systems.
author:
- Imad Eddine Touahria
bibliography:
- 'References.bib'
title: An incomplete and biased survey on selected resource management for distributed applications as basis for interoperability of medical devices
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Introduction  {#sec:introduction}
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As more IoT devices populate everyday life and penetrate on every system and societ, the available hardware infrastructures become progressively richer. The new application paradigms such as *Social Dispersed Computing* introduced in [@SocialDispersedComputing] envision the creation of highly complex systems that will provide powerful and intelligent solutions to many of today’s problems such as mobility, transport, energy, health, smart living, etc.

The amount of patients in need of continuous monitoring by 2025 will be 1.2 billion [@world2003diet] approximately. This indicates the need for providing more sophisticated logic to build intelligent systems with very efficient operation; for this it is needed to find more efficient ways for designing and developing medical devices and their corresponding software that enables continuous monitoring through smart devices (mobile or bedside) that will improve the quality of care and safety.

The integration of newer hardware and software technology in health care systems is an opportunity for decreasing the levels of mortality and will provide, overall, an improved and smarter patient care. 