UWB systems for body area networks in IEEE 802.15.6

Author

Hernandez, Marco ; Kohno, Ryuji

Author_Institution

Med. Inf. & Commun. Technol. Group, NICT, Yokosuka, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

235

Lastpage

239

Abstract

The paper describes a survey of the physical layer (PHY) of UWB systems for body area networks (BANs) currently in development by the international standard IEEE 802.15.6 Task Group (TG6). The UWB PHY includes IR-UWB and FM-UWB technologies. IR-UWB transceivers for BANs are based on the transmission of a single and relative long pulse per symbol (new paradigm in UWB) or a concatenation or burst of short pulses per symbol (legacy). FM-UWB transceivers are based on the concatenation of a CP-2FSK signal and a wideband FM signal (FM with high modulation index). Such systems are optimized for low power consumption and reliable operation, especially in medical applications.

Keywords

body area networks; personal area networks; radio transceivers; ultra wideband communication; CP-2FSK signal concatenation; FM-UWB technologies; IR-UWB technologies; IR-UWB transceivers; UWB systems; body area networks; high modulation index; international standard IEEE 802.15.6 task group; low power consumption; medical applications; physical layer; relative long pulse per symbol; short pulses per symbol; single long pulse per symbol; wideband FM signal; Frequency modulation; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Power demand; Shape; Silicon; Transceivers; BANs; UWB;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bologna

ISSN

2162-6588

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1763-5

Electronic_ISBN

2162-6588

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2011.6058835

Filename

6058835