In healthcare organizations such as hospitals, it is important to have an efficient healthcare monitoring system in which the patients’ vital signs are collected from multiple sensors and transformed into the decisions makers to be analyzed and take the appropriate actions. The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) was developed to act as an appropriate routing protocol in new 6G and Internet of Everything (6G/IoE)-based networks with the underlying Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In the RPL, a set of nodes, which are connected and have a common objective, are grouped to represent an instance. This paper investigates the use of multiple RPL instances in healthcare monitoring systems to enhance the performance of such systems. The authors evaluate the performance of their proposed approach using Cooja simulator in terms of two key routing performance metrics: average Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) and average latency. The results of the simulation showed that, by using the proposed approach, the performance of healthcare monitoring systems is enhanced in all cases, in terms of latency, from tens of seconds to less than one second.

在医院等医疗保健组织中，重要的是要有一个高效的医疗保健监测系统，在该系统中，可以从多个传感器中收集患者的生命体征，并将其转变为要分析的决策者，并采取适当的措施。低功耗有损网络（RPL）的IPv6路由协议是为了在具有基础无线传感器网络（WSN）的新的基于6G和万物联网（6G / IoE）的网络中充当适当的路由协议而开发的。在RPL中，一组已连接并具有共同目标的节点被分组以代表一个实例。本文研究了医疗监控系统中多个RPL实例的使用，以增强此类系统的性能。作者通过两个关键的路由性能指标：平均数据包传输率（PDR）和平均延迟来评估使用Cooja模拟器提出的方法的性能。仿真结果表明，通过使用所提出的方法，在所有情况下，就医疗延迟而言，医疗监控系统的性能都可以从数十秒提高到不到一秒。