Mobile AD-HOC networks for e-health care decision support system

E-Healthcare systems are considered one of the most important issues all around the world; it solves the problems that the system staffs were facing before putting such a smart system in charge. E-Healthcare systems allow an easy way for connecting people with each other directly and whenever is possible such as connecting the patients with their doctors, in order to check patient situation. Hereby, the studying and analyzing to the Intelligent Decision Support (IDS) for E-Healthcare system was done. The thesis consists of two parts, (First) a specific network is designed to support the system, Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) has been chosen as the network because it allows an easier way for data transmitting, reliability and scalability. The most important issue to design MANET is the routing protocol. Generally, routing protocols are classified into three types: proactive, reactive and hybrid. The thesis concentrates on studying Destination Sequence Distance Vector DSDV (proactive) and Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector AODV (reactive) routing protocols. A performance comparison between these two protocols is done in this work to select the best routing protocol using NS2 Simulator based on packet delivery ratio (PDR), drop packet, throughput and End to End delay. And the comparison results gave that AODV performance is better than DSDV then it is the suitable routing protocol of the network for the proposed system. (Second) the entire components that are needed to design a typical E-healthcare system are studied and designed. These components are represented by patient mobile interface, database, medical server and healthcare provider interface. C# and SQL server management R2 2008 are used for programming these issues. Moreover, the system is supported by studying and choosing the best rule to make the decision maker works efficiently. Finally, a smart website is designed in this thesis using ASP.net program to govern and control system information.