Human body: The future communication channel for WBAN

Author

Ansari, Abdul Rahim ; Sunghyun Cho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Mehran Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Jamshoro, Pakistan

fYear

2014

fDate

22-25 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

WBAN is a network of wireless sensor nodes in which in- and/or on-body sensor nodes communicate with central hub as well as with each other. It provides effective health monitoring services along with many other applications. WBAN uses either RF or non-RF based communication techniques. Human body communication (HBC) is a non-RF technique, which utilizes the human body as a communication channel. This paper surveys the typical HBC schemes and compares the performance of RF-based and HBC-based WBANs.

Keywords

body area networks; body sensor networks; HBC-based WBAN; RF-based WBAN; RF-based communication technique; central hub; communication channel; health monitoring services; human body communication; in-body sensor nodes; nonRF-based communication technique; on-body sensor nodes; typical HBC scheme; wireless sensor node network; Couplings; Electrodes; Radio frequency; Receivers; Transmitters; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; RF communication; human body communication (HBC); non-RF communication; wireless body area network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2014), The 18th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

JeJu Island

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.2014.6884540

Filename

6884540