UWB on-off waveform coded modulation for body area networks

The paper considers bit-interleaved coded modulation with on-off signaling constellations based on the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard for future body area networks (BANs) with a wideband PHY. The transmitter of BANs is constrained by the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard to have a conventional BCH(63,51) encoder and finite interleaving. The paper presents a proposal of a simple receiver architecture targeting low power consumption, although sub-optimal respect to the BICM decoder.