Survivable and Scalable Wireless Solution for E-health and E-emergency Applications

Most conventional medical systems use fixed wired LAN, cable, and other land line systems to transmit medical data or operations. As wireless technology becomes increasingly pervasive, e-health professionals are considering wireless networks for their mobile medicine systems with the advent of e-health care, a wide range of technologies can now be applied to provide medical care products and services. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed by small devices that possess the ability to measure and to exchange a variety of vital data. In this paper we evaluate the performance of wireless sensor network technology for patient’s remote monitoring. The system is mainly composed of static biomedical sensor nodes, which are mounted on the patient body in under to collect the main vital data such as temperature, ECG etc. The main characteristic of the networks such as the throughput and ratio delivery packet have been evaluated in this paper.

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