Performance evaluation of virtual MIMO for UWB based body area networks

Author

Jie Ding ; Dutkiewicz, Eryk ; Xiaojing Huang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

6-8 March 2013

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

32

Abstract

For impulse radio ultra wideband (IR-UWB) based wireless body area network (WBAN) systems, one of the significant challenges is to guarantee a reliable link for data transmission. For this purpose, in this paper, we develop a simple but effective virtual MIMO (VMIMO) based cooperative diversity scheme for a single antenna transmitter being aided by an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper where performance of VMIMO is evaluated in IR-UWB based WBAN systems. The theoretical analysis reveals that VMIMO not only offers a full spatial diversity, but also can collect the multipath diversity contained in the dense WBAN channels. Preliminary simulation results show that VMIMO can provide a considerable improvement on bit error rate (BER) performance compared with the single-input single-output (SISO) WBAN systems.

Keywords

MIMO communication; amplify and forward communication; antenna arrays; body area networks; cooperative communication; data communication; error statistics; performance evaluation; relay networks (telecommunication); transmitting antennas; ultra wideband communication; AF relay; BER performance; IR-UWB based WBAN systems; SISO WBAN systems; UWB based body area networks; VMIMO based cooperative diversity scheme; amplify-and-forward relay; bit error rate performance; data transmission; dense WBAN channels; impulse radio ultrawideband based wireless body area network systems; multipath diversity; single antenna transmitter; single-input single- output WBAN systems; virtual MIMO based cooperative diversity scheme; virtual MIMO performance evaluation; Bit error rate; MIMO; Mathematical model; Multipath channels; Relays; Reliability; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), 2013 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

2326-828X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5770-8

Electronic_ISBN

2326-828X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521693

Filename

6521693