Tabish, RohanMnaouer, Adel BenTouati, FaridGhaleb, Abdulaziz M.2020-01-292020-01-2920132013Tabish, R., Ben Mnaouer, A., Touati, F., & Ghaleb, A. M. (2013). A comparative analysis of BLE and 6LoWPAN for U-HealthCare applications. In 2013 7th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, GCC 2013 (pp. 286–291). https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2013.67057919781479907243http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2013.6705791https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/74This conference paper is not available at CUD collection. The version of scholarly record of this conference paper is published in 2013 7th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC) (2013), available online at: https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2013.6705791.For decades, there exist a variety of low-power wireless technologies deployed for healthcare applications such as Zigbee/IEEE802.15.4, Bluetooth, ANT, NFC, IrDA. However, the recently announced Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology claims to offer many new compelling features and is expected to get wide adoption by many mobile manufacturers around the world and hence be included in daily life mobile devices. Therefore, it is important to provide future adopters with a thorough yet insightful evaluation of this technology as contrasted to competing ones in the market today. In this paper, we present such evaluation from an experimental point of view as well as referring to technical specifications from manufacturers. The discussion is geared toward assessing the extent to which theses technologies can meet the stringent requirements for u-healthcare applicability. BLE and 6LoWPAN showed greater potentials for such applicability in terms of power demand, bit rate and latency. Nevertheless, BLE was found to be most robust to obstacles and was operable using single coin cell. © 2013 IEEE.enPermission to reuse abstract has been secured from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.6LoWPANIEEE 802.15.4 standardsU-healthcare systemZigbeeBluetooth low energies (BLE)Health care applicationStringent requiremenTechnical specificationU-healthcare systemBluetoothExhibitionsManufactureMobile devicesStandardsWireless telecommunication systemsConference PaperCopyright : 2013 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.