scholarly journals An Off-Body Narrowband and Ultra-Wide Band Channel Model for Body Area Networks in a Ferryboat Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Cwalina ◽  
Slawomir Ambroziak ◽  
Piotr Rajchowski
Keyword(s):  
Channel Model ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Body Area

Body Area Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 61-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Betancur Agudelo ◽  
Andres Navarro Cadavid
Keyword(s):  
Wide Band ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Wireless Protocols ◽  
Network Channel

Nowadays, wireless Body Area Networks (wBAN) have gained more relevance, in particular in the areas of health care, emergencies, ranging, location, domotics and entertainment applications. Regulations and several wireless protocols and standards have appeared in recent years. Some of them, like Bluetooth, ZigBee, Ultra Wide Band (UWB), ECMA368, WiFi, GPRS and mobile applications offer different kinds of solutions for personal area communications. In this chapter, body area network channel modelling will be described; also, a brief description of the applications and state-of-the-art of regulation and standardization processes pertaining to these kinds of networks will be presented. For each topic, the chapter shows not only the main technical characteristics, but also the technical problems and challenges in recent and future research. Finally, the chapter provides an analysis of Body Area Networks, opinions about the future and possible scenarios in the short- and medium-term for the development of standards and applications and their impacts on our daily lives.

Ultra wide-band body area channel model

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Fort ◽  
C. Desset ◽  
J. Ryckaert ◽  
P. De Doncker ◽  
L. Van Biesen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Channel Model ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Body Area

scholarly journals Patient Mobility Support for Indoor Non-Directed Optical Body Area Networks

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 2297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Durai Rajan Dhatchayeny ◽  
Sudhanshu Arya ◽  
Yeon Ho Chung
Keyword(s):  
Channel Model ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Multiple Reflections ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Patient Mobility ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Mobility Support ◽  
Additional Degree ◽  
Medical Sensors

In this paper, a patient mobility support scheme for indoor non-directed optical body area networks (OBAN) is presented. The OBAN is an optical healthcare system where medical sensors are installed on various parts of the patient’s body and are connected to an optical coordinator for transmitting the physiological signals via optical wireless links. In the proposed scheme, a white light-emitting diode (LED) was employed as the optical coordinator that was mounted on the patient body, while a photodetector (PD) was used as the receiver installed at the ceiling. We considered three practical mobility scenarios in terms of the location of the coordinator: (i) Shoulder, (ii) wrist, and (iii) both shoulder and wrist. The analytical channel model for multiple reflections in a non-directed OBAN was developed and validated in the form of simulations. In addition, experiments were carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed mobility scheme. It was found that the third scenario (shoulder and wrist) performed best, showing a bit error rate (BER) of 1.2 × 10−6 at a distance of 1.25 m. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed mobility support scheme in the OBAN added an additional degree of freedom to patients with reliable performances.

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