Reliability modeling for wireless Ultra Wideband biomedical radar sensing network

Impulse Radio Ultra Wideband technology is a newly emerged technology suitable for low-power, low-complex, and low-cost biomedical radar sensing network. Fault tolerance and reliability, and power-saving perform a critical role in the operation of the IR-UWB human bio-sensing network designed for real-time human body health monitoring. In this paper, an IR-UWB bio-sensing network is proposed and the continuous Markov process is applied to model the proposed UWB bio-sensor network. Two different models are investigated, one is sensor with three transmitting power levels, and the other is sensor with six power levels. Both of them consume same total amount of power. The radar sensor and the sink node Markov model with repair rates taken into account are modeled as well. The paper is a contributing effort to develop an analytical model and explore the trade-offs in wireless IR-UWB bio-sensor network in terms of predicted reliability, operation time (MTTF), and power consumption.