DocumentCode :
1918975
Title :
Wireless medical communications using UWB
Author :
Hämäläinen, Matti ; Taparugssanagorn, Attaphongse ; Tesi, Raffaello ; Iinatti, Jari
Author_Institution :
Centre for Wireless Commun. (CWC), Univ. of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
fYear :
2009
fDate :
9-11 Sept. 2009
Firstpage :
485
Lastpage :
489
Abstract :
This paper introduces some of the recent activities in a medical ICT related ultra wideband (UWB) research. The paper concentrates on our proposed body area network (BAN) based system architecture for wireless medical communications, and gives also a summary on experimental UWB wireless BAN (WBAN) radio channels modeling activities. The network architecture under discussion consists of parts that have already been implemented and also parts that require studies in more details before their utilization and implementation into operative healthcare services. For detailed communication system designs, accurate close body channel models are needed. This paper gives also a summary on UWB radio channel models that are suitable to be applied in wireless body area network research. Experiments for UWB radio channel models have been done in real end-user environments.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; body area networks; ultra wideband communication; wireless channels; UWB; UWB wireless BAN radio channels; body area network based system architecture; medical ICT related ultrawideband research; operative healthcare services; wireless medical communications; Body area networks; Body sensor networks; Communication system security; Condition monitoring; Costs; Internet; Medical services; Space technology; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication; body area network; healthcare; radio channel; wireless;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Ultra-Wideband, 2009. ICUWB 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2930-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2931-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICUWB.2009.5288769
Filename :
5288769
Link To Document :
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