A Study of Mobility Management Support for AR/VR-based Cognition Recovery and Rehabilitation

Abstract

Cognition recovery and rehabilitation programs are essential to improve the well-being of the elderly and person's suffering from cognitive impairments and chronic diseases. Most of this programs have utilized augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies to enable an immersive cognitive training through virtual environments capable of providing a realistic cognitive task simulations. This paper deals with leveraging the features of AR/VR technologies to improve the performance of cognition recovery and rehabilitation programs specifically on the seamless transmission of physiological information over open network systems. It aims to include mobility management as an integral factor in measuring the quality of service (QoS) for such feature of the healthcare system. In this regard, it is proposed to utilize the network-based Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (PMIPv6) mobility management protocol to fully implement a seamless mobility support for the system, thus, making the elderly and those with cognitive impairments become more productive and active members of the society.