A Framework for Implementation of Wireless Body Area Network over Software Defined Radios

Author

Manna, Tanumay ; Misra, Iti Saha ; Sanyal, Salil Kumar ; Chakraborty, Tamal

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., Jadavpur Univ. Kolkata, Kolkata, India

fYear

2015

fDate

13-15 May 2015

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

20

Abstract

Wireless Body Area Network over Software Defined Radio (SDR) Platform is the solution towards providing ubiquitous wireless health monitoring of patients over Internet. In this paper, a system is designed to enable ECG signals to be compressed and communicated to remote server at regular intervals over SDR platform comprised of Wireless Open Access Research Platform boards. To enable this, a TCP/IP based client-server model is proposed which allows data to be sent whenever the SDR channel is free. Test-bed analysis has shown that signal compression through Discrete Wavelet Transform by choosing the correct filter can provide significant 83.8% energy efficiency, without much data loss. This work provides the framework and highlights the open issues to develop the SDR platform into a Cognitive Radio module.

Keywords

body area networks; cognitive radio; data compression; discrete wavelet transforms; electrocardiography; software radio; ECG signals; Internet; SDR; TCP/IP based client-server model; cognitive radio module; discrete wavelet transform; signal compression; software defined radios; ubiquitous wireless health monitoring; wireless body area network; wireless open access research platform boards; Cognitive radio; Discrete wavelet transforms; Electrocardiography; IP networks; Servers; Wireless sensor networks; Cognitive Radio; DWT; SDR; TCP/IP; WARP; WBAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Ahmedabad

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENSYMP.2015.11

Filename

7166227