Study of dynamic on-body link reliability for WBAN systems

Author

See, Terence S P ; Kim, Chee Wee ; Chiam, Tat Meng ; Ge, Yu ; Wai, Aung Aung Phyo ; Chen, Zhi Ning

Author_Institution

Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

113

Abstract

In this paper, the dynamic on-body link reliability of an IEEE 802.15.4 wireless body area network (WBAN) enabling on-body communications at 2.48 GHz is studied. By having the transmitter node placed on various locations on the hands and the receiver node fixed on the waist, the link reliability can be evaluated from the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) readings when the user is stationary, walking, and jogging. From the RSSI readings, the reliability of the WBAN can be quantified by the performance metric of packet delivery ratio (PDR).

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical communication; body area networks; radio links; radio receivers; radio transmitters; telecommunication network reliability; IEEE 802.15.4 WBAN system; IEEE 802.15.4 wireless body area network; PDR; RSSI; dynamic on-body link reliability; frequency 2.48 GHz; on-body communication; packet delivery ratio; received signal strength indicator; receiver node; transmitter node; Elbow; Legged locomotion; Receivers; Reliability; Transmitters; Wireless communication; Wrist; On-body communications; RSSI; dynamic channel modeling; wireless body area network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0666-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333173

Filename

6333173