Title :
Performance of On-Body Chest-to-Waist UWB Communication Link
Author :
Wang, Qiong ; Wang, Jianqing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Nagoya
Abstract :
On-body area ultra wideband (UWB) communication is promising for biomedical applications. In this letter, the performance of an on-body UWB chest-to-waist link, which corresponds to a communication link from a biotical sensor at the chest to a coordinator receiver at the waist, is investigated. The channel model is first derived based on the frequency-dependent finite difference time domain method and a realistic-shaped human body model with an emphasis on the statistical variations of body postures. Then the bit error rate for a RAKE receiver is obtained.
Keywords :
biocommunications; error statistics; finite difference time-domain analysis; physiological models; telecommunication links; ultra wideband communication; RAKE receiver; biotical sensor; bit error rate; body postures; coordinator receiver; finite difference time domain method; on-body chest-to-waist link; realistic-shaped human body model; ultra wideband communication link; Bit error rate (BER); channel model; on-body propagation; ultra wideband (UWB);
Journal_Title :
Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LMWC.2008.2011342
