In this paper we present the results of the
investigation carried out by us through simulation, on the performance of such a WSMN used for patient health monitoring applications, in terms of parameters like delay, MAC delay and throughput under varying number of
patients and varying number of doctors in wards and also the failure performance when the mesh nodes fail.
The simulation study has been carried out with Opnet modeller 15.0. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows.
Section 2 discusses the Hierarchical Agent based WSMN architecture proposed for healthcare application and taken for simulation study.
Section 3 provides the results of the
study carried out on the performance of this network architecture in terms of delay, MAC delay and throughput under varying number of patients, varying number of doctors and failure of mesh nodes.
Section 4 is on conclusion and future work.