Title :
An overview of Physical layers on wireless body area network
Author :
Li, Miaoxin ; Zhuang, Mingjie
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Huaqiao Univ., Quanzhou, China
Abstract :
As a branch of WSN and an important part of the internet of things (IOT), the wireless body area network (WBAN) was originally created to improve the level of personal health care. And with the development of wireless technologies, the application of the WBAN has expanded to entertainment, leisure, military and other fields. So far, IEEE 802 Task Group has published a new IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The standard defines a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer supporting three Physical (PRY) layers. The three PRY layers are narrowband (NB) PRY, ultra wideband (UWB) PRY and human body communication (RBC) PRY. In this paper, the concept and applications of WBAN are introduced; comparisons between 802.11, 802.15.1, 802.15.4 and 802.15.6 are made; and a brief description about the three PRY layers specifications is given. Some existing questions and challenges the WBAN confronts are also analyzed.
Keywords :
Internet; body area networks; health care; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; HBC PHY; IEEE 802 Task Group; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.15.1; IEEE 802.15.4; IEEE 802.15.6 standard; IOT; Internet of things; MAC layer; NB PHY; PHY layers specifications; UWB PHY; WBAN; WSN; human body communication PHY; medium access control layer; narrowband PHY; personal health care; physical layers; ultrawideband PHY; wireless body area network; wireless technologies; Body area networks; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Physical layer; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.6; PHY; WBAN;
Conference_Titel :
Anti-Counterfeiting, Security and Identification (ASID), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2144-0
Electronic_ISBN :
2163-5048
DOI :
10.1109/ICASID.2012.6325342
