Research on Delay in Wireless Muti-Hop Heterogeneous Body Area Networks

Abstract:

Due to life threatening situations, timely sending of data is essential. In this study transmission delay of different paths, through which data is sent from sensor to health care center over heterogeneous multi-hop wireless channel is analyzed. Data of medical related diseases is sent through three different paths. In all three paths, data from sensors first reaches ZigBee, which is the common link in all three paths. Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) are connected with ZigBee. Each network (WLAN, WiMAX, UMTS) is setup according to environmental conditions, suitability of device and availability of structure for that device. Delay of data reaching each device is calculated and represented graphically. Main aim of this study is to calculate delay of each link in each path over multi-hop wireless channel.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 644-650)
• Pages: 2715-2718
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.644-650.2715
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Hui Xia*
• Keywords: Heterogeneous, Multi-Hop, Network, UMTS, WiMax, WLAN, ZigBee

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