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Consumer Technology-Based Solutions for COVID-19

Figure 2. Realization of Use Cases with MEC.

communication links with a formidable level of
capacity and continuous connectivity. In addition, aggregation and visualization of medical
data from a remote and a centralized hub is vital
for early diagnosis of the level of COVID-19;
where the treatment plan for the patient is determined accordingly.

Use Case 3 : AR Assisted Remote Surgery
There are tendencies to adapt AR for remotely
operated surgeries in addition to visualizing internal organs externally to improve the invasive
medical procedures with enhanced precision. Furthermore, Haptic feedback approaches can be
induced to AR applications; where kinaesthetic
communication is practiced with touch or motion
based perception is conveyed to the user for
enhancing the feedback retrieval through additional human-sensory adaptions. The requirement
for a robot assisted surgery (RAS) arises with
emergency situations where a qualified surgeon is
not available within the premises, or the possibility for surgical staff to be exposed to a pathogen
while performing the surgery; which constitute
to a COVID-19 circumstance. American College
of Surgeons identified the surgeries of rupture
tubal-ovarian abscess, tubal-ovarian abscess not
responding to conservative therapy, emergency
cerclage, Cancer or suspected cancer, and Cerclage of the cervix as plausible RASs.21 These AR-

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based RASs are demanding eMBB, mMTC, and
URLLC requirements with higher processing and
communication resources.

REALIZING USE CASES WITH MEC
In order to facilitate the requirements of the
use cases proposed in the section " MEC Enabled
Use Cases, " an IBS with MEC capability is ideal
considering its dynamic service provisioning
capability. Since the MEC platform is locally
deployed, the medical services can be classified
as local and remote operations. The local services as in use case 1, are operating without the
core network (CN) connectivity. This section is
presenting an MEC-based edge platform architecture implemented in a hospital environment
to achieve the requirements demanding from
the use cases mentioned above. Figure 2
presents the high-level architecture of the MEC
edge platform that is formed in accordance to
the ETSI standards.

AR-Based Remote Robotic Monitoring With
MEC
As indicated in Figure 2, AR Robots or AR
bots proposed under this use case are controlled via the MEC edge platform that is
deployed with a 5G radio BS within the hospital
vicinity. This AR robot controlling platform is
interfaced by a control station in which the users

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