UWB for noninvasive wireless body area networks: channel measurements and results

Author

Zasowski, Thomas ; Althaus, Frank ; Stage, Mathias ; Wittneben, A. ; Troste, G.

Author_Institution

Commun. Technol. Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2003

fDate

16-19 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

285

Lastpage

289

Abstract

The paper presents UWB channel measurements from 3 to 6 GHz for a body area network (BAN) in an anechoic chamber and an office room. Both, transmit and receive antenna were placed directly on the body. Channel parameters as delay spread and path loss are extracted from the measurements and the influence of the body is highlighted. We show that in some situations there are significant echoes from the body (e.g. from the arms) and we observed deterministic echoes from the floor that could help to simplify a RAKE receiver structure. Finally, we consider the overall energy consumption of the BAN and give decision regions for singlehop and multihop links in relation to signal processing energy.

Keywords

anechoic chambers (electromagnetic); broadband networks; channel estimation; radio links; radio receivers; receiving antennas; signal processing; transmitting antennas; 3 to 6 GHz; RAKE receiver; UWB; anechoic chamber; channel measurements; channel parameters; energy consumption; multihop links; noninvasive wireless body area networks; receive antenna; signal processing energy; singlehop links; transmit antenna; ultrawideband; Anechoic chambers; Antenna measurements; Area measurement; Arm; Body area networks; Body sensor networks; Delay; Fading; Loss measurement; Receiving antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies, 2003 IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8187-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UWBST.2003.1267849

Filename

1267849