Performance Analysis of a Home Telemonitoring System

Performance analysis is important for evaluating the system effectivity. In this paper, the queueing theory and discrete event simulation technology are applied to a performance study of a home ECG telemonitoring system. The data from a four-month trial is used to establish the input stream model of the medical service system. The input model includes the customer inter-arrival time distribution and the service time distribution of the server. With the input model, a queueing model is introduced to simulate the ECG monitoring system. The performance simulation results indicate the feasibility of the model. The results are helpful on designing an optimal service system with given properties of input stream and service procedures.