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Experimental performance analysis of wireless links for healthcare applications

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posted on 2017-10-17, 15:14 authored by Harry S.H. Gombachika, Timothy Chadza, Mayamiko Nkoloma, Million T. Mafuta, Rodwell S. Bakolo
Wireless networking is currently being deployed for various applications. However, the application of wireless networking in healthcare remains a challenge mainly because of security and reliability concerns. This paper presents experimental results of performance analysis of a wireless network for healthcare application in the City of Blantyre. The results show that the use of wireless networking in healthcare application will be limited by packet loss, delay and jitter when the number of hops involved in the transmission of information is large. Nevertheless, deployment of wireless networking for healthcare applications is viable when the number of hops a packet has to transverse is small.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Malawi Journal of Science and Technology

Volume

9

Issue

1

Pages

1 - 4

Citation

GOMBACHIKA, H. ... et al., 2009. Experimental performance analysis of wireless links for healthcare applications. Malawi Journal of Science and Technology, 9 (1), pp.1-4.

Publisher

University of Malawi

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2009

ISSN

1019-7079

Language

  • en

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