UWB-WBAN sensor node design

Author

Keong, Ho Chee ; Yuce, M.R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

2176

Lastpage

2179

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the hardware development of a UWB sensor node for wireless body area networks. A few unique UWB pulse generation techniques have been discussed. The sensor node transmits multiple pulses per bit to increase the average power of the transmitted signal in order to improve the bit-error rate (BER) performance. The multiple-pulse per bit technique is also used as the coding scheme to identify the individual sensor nodes when more than one sensor forms a network. The sensors nodes are able to transmit body signals up to 2 m with a BER lower than 10^-5.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; body area networks; ultra wideband communication; wireless sensor networks; UWB WBAN sensor node design; UWB pulse generation techniques; bit-error rate performance; coding scheme; multiple pulse transmission; wireless body area networks; Clocks; Logic gates; Pulse generation; Receivers; Transmitters; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Computer Communication Networks; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Telemetry; Transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090409

Filename

6090409