TY - GEN
T1 - Propagation characteristics of intra-body communications for body area networks
AU - Ruiz, Jordi Agud
AU - Xu, Jiang
AU - Shimamoto, Shigeru
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Body area networks (BAN) will become increasingly important in the future personal communication systems. We believe that intra-body communications (IBC) based on near field electromagnetic waves is a suitable solution for BAN. This paper presents experimental measurements of the frequency and time domain responses in order to investigate the transmission characteristics of the human body as a conductor of low power high frequency radio signals (up to 3GHz). In the measurements, several distances between transmitter and receiver (up to a long distance from the head to the foot) and six test people (to study the possible variation results due to physiological body effects) have been considered. Besides analyzing the intra-body channel response, we also aim to define a suitable frequency range for IBC. Finally, this paper also presents an initial evaluation study of several digital modulation schemes in order to investigate the optimal technique for IBC.
AB - Body area networks (BAN) will become increasingly important in the future personal communication systems. We believe that intra-body communications (IBC) based on near field electromagnetic waves is a suitable solution for BAN. This paper presents experimental measurements of the frequency and time domain responses in order to investigate the transmission characteristics of the human body as a conductor of low power high frequency radio signals (up to 3GHz). In the measurements, several distances between transmitter and receiver (up to a long distance from the head to the foot) and six test people (to study the possible variation results due to physiological body effects) have been considered. Besides analyzing the intra-body channel response, we also aim to define a suitable frequency range for IBC. Finally, this paper also presents an initial evaluation study of several digital modulation schemes in order to investigate the optimal technique for IBC.
KW - Blind people guidance application
KW - Body area networks
KW - Body channel
KW - Body transmission characteristics
KW - Intra-body communications
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U2 - 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593076
DO - 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593076
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33749078539
SN - 1424400856
SN - 9781424400850
T3 - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
SP - 509
EP - 513
BT - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
T2 - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
Y2 - 8 January 2006 through 10 January 2006
ER -