An ultra-wideband SAGE algorithm for body area networks

Author

Van Roy, Stéphane ; Liu, Lingfeng ; Oestges, Claude ; De Doncker, Philippe

Author_Institution

OPERA Dept., Univ. Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

fYear

2009

fDate

14-18 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

584

Lastpage

587

Abstract

Body area networks (BANs) consist of a set of bio-sensors placed on the human body and measuring some physiological or contextual information. The data are collected by some central devices located on the body or in the surrounding environment of the body via single or multi-hop transmissions. Typical applications include the real-time monitoring of heart activity blood pressure, breathing rate, or skin temperature, for the purpose of diagnostics or generating automatic calls for emergency.

Keywords

body area networks; patient monitoring; ultra wideband communication; body area networks; breathing rate; contextual information; heart activity blood pressure; multihop transmission; physiological information; real-time monitoring; skin temperature; ultra-wideband SAGE algorithm; Anthropometry; Area measurement; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Body area networks; Computerized monitoring; Heart rate measurement; Humans; Skin; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, 2009. ICEAA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3385-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3386-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2009.5297364

Filename

5297364