Title :
Human-area networking technology based on near-field coupling transceiver
Author :
Kado, Yuichi ; Kobase, Taku ; Yanagawa, Tomoaki ; Kusunoki, Tatsuya ; Takahashi, Masashi ; Nagai, Ryouji ; Hiromitsu, Ozaki ; Hataya, Atsushi ; Simasaki, Hitoshi ; Shinagawa, Mitsuru
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Kyoto Inst. of Technol., Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
We discuss a novel communication technology that uses the human body as a communication path. The conventional body-channel communication systems are composed of only transceivers (TRX) on the human body. Our proposed system is composed of not only transceivers on the body (wearable TRX) but also transceivers embedded in floors, PCs, equipments, etc (embedded TRX). Therefore, our system broadens the fields of application. To estimate the transmission quality of our system, we measured the packet error rates (PER) between a wearable TRX and an embedded TRX. The PER during downlink was better than that during uplink. We describe a method for improving the PER during uplink with a common mode filter and show the PER characteristics.
Keywords :
body area networks; radio transceivers; PER; TRX; body-channel communication systems; human-area networking technology; near-field coupling transceiver; packet error rates; transmission quality; wireless body area networks; Downlink; Electrodes; Noise; Noise measurement; Phantoms; Power measurement; Transceivers; body area network; human area network; near field coupling;
Conference_Titel :
Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1153-4
DOI :
10.1109/RWS.2012.6175318
