A High-Frequency Pulse Transmission System on Human Body Area: Simulation and Analysis

Author

Wang, Jianqing ; Nishikawa, Yuji

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Nagoya

fYear

2006

fDate

26-29 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

With the rapid progress of electronic and information technology, an expectation for the realization of body area network (BAN) has risen. In this study, we proposed a pulse transmission system with frequencies at dozens of megahertzes. The system was based on an impulse radio (IR) scheme with bi-phase modulation. By using the frequency-dependent finite difference time domain (FD2TD) method, we investigated the on-body transmission characteristics and derived a path loss expression. We also investigated the influences of Gaussian noises and other narrow-band interferences on the communication link budget and bit error rate (BER) performance.

Keywords

Gaussian noise; error statistics; finite difference time-domain analysis; personal area networks; phase modulation; Gaussian noises; bi-phase modulation; bit error rate; body area network; communication link budget; frequency-dependent finite difference time domain method; high-frequency pulse transmission system; human body area; impulse radio scheme; narrow-band interferences; Analytical models; Biological system modeling; Bit error rate; Body area networks; Body sensor networks; Finite difference methods; Frequency; Humans; Information technology; Propagation losses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation & EM Theory, 2006. ISAPE '06. 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0162-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0163-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2006.353288

Filename

4168329