title: Performance evaluation of a Wireless Body Area sensor network for remote patient monitoring.
abstract: In recent years, interests in the application of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) have grown considerably. A WBAN can be used to develop a patient monitoring system which offers flexibility and mobility to patients. Use of a WBAN will also allow the flexibility of setting up a remote monitoring system via either the internet or an intranet. For such medical systems it is very important that a WBAN can collect and transmit data reliably, and in a timely manner to the monitoring entity. In this paper we examine the performance of an IEEE802.15.4/Zigbee MAC based WBAN operating in different patient monitoring environment. We study the performance of a remote patient monitoring system using an OPNET based simulation model.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical Eng. and Computer Sci., University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. Jamil.Khan@newcastle.edu.au
authors.forename: Jamil Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Mehmet R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Yuce
authors.forename: Farbood
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Karami
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface