Title :
Performance of a one-way ranging method for WBAN healthcare services
Author :
Lee, Cheolhyo ; Lee, Hyung-Soo ; Kim, Jae-Young
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
Localization is an important factor to enhance availability of healthcare monitoring systems for the patient and asset tracking. This paper provides an efficient ranging measurement technique of OWR method based on the impulse radio UWB for the WBAN healthcare services. When fixed reference nodes broadcast the ranging messages in a network, the mobile nodes measure the time of arrived messages and retrieve the time information written by the reference nodes. For the performance evaluation, the ranging and positioning error are investigated using the proposed method.
Keywords :
body area networks; broadcasting; health care; patient care; OWR method; WBAN healthcare service; healthcare monitoring system; message broadcasting; mobile node; one-way ranging measurement technique; patient monitoring; performance evaluation; time information retrieval; Biomedical monitoring; Body sensor networks; Electronic mail; Hospitals; Humans; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Radio frequency; Telecommunication traffic; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Information Technology, 2009. ISCIT 2009. 9th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Icheon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4521-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4522-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISCIT.2009.5341046
