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Empirical analysis of the reliability of low‐rate wireless u‐healthcare monitoring applications
Author(s) -
Lee YoungDong,
Jeong DoUn,
Lee HoonJae
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.1360
Subject(s) - computer science , reliability (semiconductor) , wireless , base station , wireless sensor network , software deployment , computer network , node (physics) , wireless network , transmission (telecommunications) , real time computing , telecommunications , engineering , power (physics) , physics , structural engineering , quantum mechanics , operating system
SUMMARY In this paper, we demonstrate an empirical analysis of the reliability of low‐rate wireless u‐healthcare monitoring applications. We have considered the performance analysis of the IEEE 802.15.4 low‐rate wireless technologies for u‐healthcare applications. For empirical measurement, we considered three scenarios in which the reliability features of the low‐rate wireless u‐healthcare monitoring applications have been measured: (i) distance between sensor nodes and base station; (ii) deployment of the number of sensor nodes in a network; and (iii) data transmission by different time intervals. The experimental results show that received data are used to calculate BER and analyze the performance according to the scenarios. The BER is affected when varying the distance between sensor node and base station, the number of nodes, and time interval. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.