• DocumentCode
    522476
  • Title

    Power and rate adaptation in body-area networks

  • Author

    Ghanem, Khalida ; Hall, Peter S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron., Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    12-16 April 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    This paper investigates the power and rate allocation policy in body-area-networks (BANs) when using MIMO antenna arrays. The on-body channel model which considers different propagation mechanisms in different spatial subchannels is derived by using the measured statistical parameters. At low SNR range, the discrete and continuous schemes yield similar spectral efficiency performance. Also, the achievable Shannon capacity is lower than the equivalent Rayleigh channel.
  • Keywords
    Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Bit error rate; Body sensor networks; MIMO; Mobile antennas; Receiving antennas; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona, Spain
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6431-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-84-7653-472-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5505647