Effect of human body movements on performance of multiband OFDM based ultra wideband wireless communication system

Author

Abbasi, Qammer H. ; Alomainy, Akram ; Hao, Yang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK

fYear

2010

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

148

Abstract

This paper presents system-level modelling of potential multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexed ultra wideband (UWB) system. System performance is measured using bit error rate (BER) and signal-to-noise ratio. The conducted system analysis demonstrated that the BER is equal to or less than 0.1%, for 75% of stable (i.e. transmitter is on waist) and 61% of unstable transmitter locations (i.e. transmitter is on wrist) respectively. This demonstrates promising applications of the proposed UWB body-centric radio system.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; body area networks; error statistics; radio transmitters; ultra wideband communication; BER; UWB body-centric radio system; UWB system; bit error rate; human body movements; multiband OFDM; orthogonal frequency division multiplexed; ultra wideband wireless communication system; unstable transmitter locations; Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Bit error rate; OFDM; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication; Wrist;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2010 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7304-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2010.5666238

Filename

5666238