A prototype BAN for medical and healthcare monitoring based on high band UWB

Author

Li, Huan-Bang ; Hamaguchi, Kiyoshi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Yokosuka, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

3-7 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Body area network (BAN) has been attracting more and more attentions, especially since BAN standardization was formally started by IEEE 802 in 2008. By enabling reliable wireless connection within body area, BAN is expected to provide an efficient way to lower disease occurrence rate and reduce medical expenditure when combining with various vital signal sensors deployed on human body. In this paper, a prototype BAN system is presented. As a new effort, high band of ultra-wideband (UWB) is used to build the prototype BAN. Various sensors are adopted to monitor different body related information. Both physical layer (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layer of the prototype BAN are illustrated. Moreover, RF specifications as well as measurement results are presented. The prototype BAN performs well with the designed functions.

Keywords

access protocols; body area networks; diseases; health care; patient monitoring; ultra wideband communication; BAN standardization; IEEE 802; MAC layer; body area network; disease occurrence rate; healthcare monitoring; high band UWB; medical expenditure; medical monitoring; medium access control; physical layer; prototype BAN; vital signal sensors; wireless connection; Body area networks; Modulation; Prototypes; Sensors; Standardization; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Body area network (BAN); high band; medical and healthcare; ultra-wideband (UWB);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2011 14th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Brest

ISSN

1347-6890

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1786-4

Electronic_ISBN

1347-6890

Type

conf

Filename

6081456