Title :
Analyzing the use of e-textiles to improve application performance
Author :
Jones, Mark ; Martin, Tom ; Nakad, Zahi ; Shenoy, Ravi ; Sheikh, Tanwir ; Lehn, David ; Edmison, Joshua ; Chandra, Madhup
Author_Institution :
Bradley Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
E-textiles are an alternative to radio-based personal area networks, with potentially significant advantages in hardware cost and energy consumption, through a reduction in the number of communication modules and the energy consumed by data transmission. This paper presents a methodology based on simulation and physical experimentation for quantifying this savings on a large e-textile that determines the bearing/location of one or more distant audible targets.
Keywords :
benchmark testing; fabrics; personal communication networks; radio networks; communication modules; data transmission; e-textile; radio-based personal area networks; Application software; Costs; Energy consumption; Fabrics; Hardware; Manufacturing; Optical fiber sensors; Performance analysis; Personal area networks; Textiles;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7954-3
DOI :
10.1109/VETECF.2003.1286137
