Numerical investigation on the dependence of on-body channel characteristics on anthropomorphic variation of human body

Author

Ali, Khaleda ; Brizzi, Alessio ; Alomainy, Akram ; Yang Hao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary, Univ. of London, London, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A numerical investigation focusing on the correlation between on-body channel characteristics and the morphological variation of body is presented in the paper. The analysis has been carried out at 5.8GHz and a parallel version of Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) has been employed. Fifty digital phantoms are adopted in the simulation domain. Parameters explored for the concerned study are path loss and channel capacity. Results demonstrate that for models with similar dimensions around waist, a change of 50cms in height can cause a variation of 20% in path loss exponent and 35% in channel capacity per unit hertz.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; body area networks; finite difference time-domain analysis; phantoms; anthropomorphic human body variation; channel capacity; digital phantoms; finite difference time domain; on-body channel characteristics; path loss; Biological system modeling; Dielectrics; Finite difference methods; Numerical models; Phantoms; Signal to noise ratio; Time-domain analysis; Body Area Network; Finite Difference Time Domain Technique (FDTD); path loss;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5445-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2014.7032381

Filename

7032381