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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/KICS.2012.37C.4.338

Development of Mobile u-Healthcare System in WSN  

Lee, Seung-Chul (부경대학교 전자정보통신연구소)
Chung, Wan-Young (부경대학교 전자공학과)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.37, no.4C, 2012 , pp. 338-346 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wireless sensor network (WSN) technology provides a variety of medical and healthcare solutions to assist detection and communication of body conditions. However, data reliability inside WSN might be influenced to healthcare routing protocol due to limited hardware resources of computer, storage, and communication bandwidth. For this reason, we have conducted various wireless communication experiments between nodes using parameters such as RF strength, battery status, and deployment status to get a optimal performance of mobile healthcare routing protocol. This experiment may also extend the life time of the nodes. Performance analysis is done to obtain some important parameters in terms of distance and reception rate between the nodes. Our experiment results show optimal distance between nodes according to battery status and RF strength, or deployment status and RF strength. The packet reception rate according to deployment status and RF strength of nodes was also checked. Based on this performance evaluation, the optimized sensor node battery and deployment in the developed our mobile healthcare routing protocol were proposed.
Keywords
WSN; Mobile u-Healthcare; MCF; Node Deployment; Routing Protocol;
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