Impact of channel modeling on accurate estimation of on-body channel capacity

Author

Michalopoulou, A. ; Zervos, T. ; Peppas, K. ; Lazarakis, F. ; Alexandridis, A.A. ; Dangakis, K. ; Kaklamani, Dimitra I.

Author_Institution

Nat. Centre for Sci. Res. Demokritos, Inst. of Inf. & Telecommun., Athens, Greece

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

3125

Lastpage

3129

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of on-body channel modeling on the accurate estimation of BAN system performance. Channel capacity is used as a measure of the on-body system performance. The actual channel capacity is calculated based on signal measurements conducted in an indoor environment. Then it is compared to the channel capacity calculated for five theoretical channel models obtained through statistical analysis of the measured data.

Keywords

body area networks; channel capacity; channel estimation; BAN system performance; body area network system performance; channel modeling; indoor environment; on-body channel capacity accurate estimation; signal measurements; statistical analysis; Antenna measurements; Channel capacity; Estimation; Fading; Fitting; Legged locomotion; Signal to noise ratio; Body area network (BAN); channel capacity; channel modeling; on-body channel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206189

Filename

6206189