Throughput of optimal and suboptimal low-power IR-UWB coherent receivers for wireless body-area-networks (WBANs)

Author

Shaban, Heba ; El-Nasr, M. Abou ; Buehrer, R.M.

fYear

2011

fDate

13-20 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Impulse radio ultra wide band (IR-UWB) systems have the potential for low-power consumption as well as high data-rates over short distances. This makes them an attractive candidate for emerging wireless body-area-network (BAN) applications. In this paper, we investigate the performance of low-power suboptimal real sinusoidal-template based detectors for M-ary pulse-amplitude-modulation (PAM) and M-ary equally-correlated pulse-position-modulation M-ary (EC-PPM) modulation techniques in multipath channels. Furthermore, we provide numerical results in the UWB-based IEEE 802.15.6a channels, and evaluate the corresponding attainable throughput.

Keywords

WiMax; biomedical communication; body area networks; power consumption; pulse amplitude modulation; radio receivers; ultra wideband communication; IR-UWB coherent receiver; M-ary equally-correlated pulse-position-modulation M-ary modulation technique; M-ary pulse-amplitude-modulation; UWB-based IEEE 802.15.6a channel; impulse radio ultra wide band system; low-power consumption; suboptimal real sinusoidal-template based detector; wireless body-area-network; Bit error rate; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Modulation; Optimized production technology; Receivers; Throughput; Ultra wideband technology; Body Area Networks (BANs); Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM); Pulse-Position Modulation (PPM); Ultra-wideband (UWB); low-power receivers; multipath channel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5117-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051323

Filename

6051323