Statistical characterization of the dynamic human body communication channel at 45MHz

Author

Nie Zedong ; Ma Jingjing ; Chen Hong ; Wang Lei

Author_Institution

Shenzhen Inst. of Adv. Technol., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2013

fDate

3-7 July 2013

Firstpage

1206

Lastpage

1209

Abstract

The dynamic human body communication (HBC) propagation channel at 45 MHz was statistical characterized in this paper. A large amount of measurement data has been gathered in practical environment with real activities -treadmill running at different speeds in a lab room. The received power between two lower legs was acquired from three volunteers, with more than 60,000 snap shot of data in total. The statistical analyses confirmed that the HBC propagation channel at 45 MHz followed the Gamma and Lognormal distributions at the slower (2 km/h and 4 km/h) and faster (6 km/h and 8 km/h) running activities, respectively. The channel is insensitive to body motion with the maximum average fade duration is 0.0413 s and the most averaging bad channel duration time being less than 60 ms with the percentage of the bad channel duration time being less than 4.35%.

Keywords

biomedical communication; biomedical measurement; gamma distribution; statistical analysis; wireless channels; HBC propagation channel; bad channel duration time; body motion; dynamic human body communication channel; dynamic human body communication propagation channel; frequency 45 MHz; gamma distributions; lab room; lognormal distributions; lower legs; measurement data; statistical characterization; treadmill running activity; Electrodes; Fading; Fitting; Time measurement; Transceivers; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Osaka

ISSN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609723

Filename

6609723