Bit error rate performance of wireless body area network system

Author

Sasamori, Takayuki ; Satoh, Yudai ; Tobana, Teruo ; Isota, Yoji ; Takahashi, Masaharu ; Uno, Toru

Author_Institution

Akita Prefectural Univ., Akita, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

11-17 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, in order to clarify the influence of the human body on the radio wave propagation of the wearable device for on-body wireless communications, we have derived transmission coefficient analytically, and have evaluated the digital communication using the ISM band of 915 MHz and the UWB band in terms of BER. Due to the propagation characteristic of the wearable device attached to an arm, we have therefore approximated the arm as a dielectric circular cylinder. As a result, it has been shown that the existence of the dielectric circular cylinder improved the BER performance of the digital communications.

Keywords

body area networks; digital communication; error statistics; radiowave propagation; ultra wideband communication; wireless channels; ISM band; UWB band; bit error rate; dielectric circular cylinder; digital communication; frequency 915 MHz; human body; on-body wireless communications; radio wave propagation; wearable device; wireless body area network; Antenna feeds; Bit error rate; Dielectrics; Dipole antennas; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4967-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2010.5561871

Filename

5561871