Statistical characterization of the dynamic narrowband body area channel

Author

Smith, David ; Hanlen, Leif ; Miniutti, Dino ; Zhang, Jian ; Rodda, David ; Gilbert, Ben

fYear

2008

fDate

25-28 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A statistical characterization of the narrowband dynamic human on-body area channel, with application to biomedical/health information monitoring, is presented based on measured received signal amplitude. We consider varying amounts of body movement, and a variety of transmit-receive pair (Tx-Rx) locations on the human body. The characterization is presented for two different frequencies, near the 900 MHz and 2400 MHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) bands. Common distributions used to describe fading statistics are compared to the received signal component for nine different Tx-Rx pair locations for the subjectpsilas body standing, walking and running. The Lognormal distribution provides a good fitting model, particularly when the subjectpsilas body is moving. The fit is independent of Tx-Rx pair locations. The Rayleigh distribution is a very poor fit to the received signal amplitude statistics.

Keywords

body area networks; statistical analysis; wireless channels; wireless sensor networks; Rayleigh distribution; biomedicalinformation monitoring; dynamic narrowband body area channel; health information monitoring; lognormal distribution; statistical characterization; Area measurement; Biomedical measurements; Biomedical monitoring; Fitting; Frequency; Humans; Legged locomotion; Narrowband; Rayleigh channels; Statistical distributions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Sciences on Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2008. ISABEL '08. First International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2647-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2648-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISABEL.2008.4712618

Filename

4712618