• DocumentCode
    628290
  • Title

    Emerging spectrum regulation for Medical Body Area Network

  • Author

    Wang, Dong ; Smith, Delroy ; Krasinski, Ray ; Ghosh, Monisha ; Batra, Anuj

  • Author_Institution
    Philips Electronics North America
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    6-9 May 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) technology is a promising solution to improve patient care outcomes and lower healthcare costs. To foster MBAN innovations, the FCC recently allocated dedicated spectrum for MBAN services. In this paper, we present a brief summary of the FCC MBAN rules. Then, we discuss the technical rationale for the selection of key parameters, such as frequency band selection, emission bandwidth limit, and transmission power limit. Finally, we provide link budget analysis and MBAN coexistence simulations to demonstrate that the FCC rules can meet the requirements of MBAN applications.
  • Keywords
    Bandwidth; Batteries; Electrocardiography; FCC; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Medical services; Monitoring;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cambridge, MA, USA
  • ISSN
    2325-1425
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0331-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BSN.2013.6575476
  • Filename
    6575476