Transmission Performance of an In-Body to Off-Body UWB Communication Link

Jianqing WANG; Kenichiro MASAMI; Qiong WANG

doi:10.1587/transcom.E94.B.150

Transmission Performance of an In-Body to Off-Body UWB Communication Link

Jianqing WANG, Kenichiro MASAMI, Qiong WANG

Full Text Views

0

Cite this

Summary :

The objective of this study is to investigate the feasibility of an ultra wideband (UWB) impulse radio system for in-body to off-body wireless communication for biomedical applications. At first, a UWB antenna is designed in the UWB low band for implant use in the chest. Then the channel model is extracted and established based on the finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation with an anatomical human body model. The established channel model consists of a small set of parameters for generating discrete time impulse responses. The generated model shows good agreement with the FDTD-calculated result in terms of key communication metrics. For effective communication over the multipath-affected channel, the pulse position modulation is employed and a 2-finger RAKE structure with a constant temporal delay is proposed in the receiver. The bit error rate performance has shown the validity of the system in the in-body to off-body chest channel.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E94-B No.1 pp.150-157

Publication Date: 2011/01/01

Publicized

Online ISSN: 1745-1345

DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.150

Type of Manuscript: PAPER

Category: Antennas and Propagation

Cite this

Copy

Jianqing WANG, Kenichiro MASAMI, Qiong WANG, "Transmission Performance of an In-Body to Off-Body UWB Communication Link" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E94-B, no. 1, pp. 150-157, January 2011, doi: 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.150.
Abstract: The objective of this study is to investigate the feasibility of an ultra wideband (UWB) impulse radio system for in-body to off-body wireless communication for biomedical applications. At first, a UWB antenna is designed in the UWB low band for implant use in the chest. Then the channel model is extracted and established based on the finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation with an anatomical human body model. The established channel model consists of a small set of parameters for generating discrete time impulse responses. The generated model shows good agreement with the FDTD-calculated result in terms of key communication metrics. For effective communication over the multipath-affected channel, the pulse position modulation is employed and a 2-finger RAKE structure with a constant temporal delay is proposed in the receiver. The bit error rate performance has shown the validity of the system in the in-body to off-body chest channel.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/communications/10.1587/transcom.E94.B.150/_p

Copy

@ARTICLE{e94-b_1_150,
author={Jianqing WANG, Kenichiro MASAMI, Qiong WANG, },
journal={IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications},
title={Transmission Performance of an In-Body to Off-Body UWB Communication Link},
year={2011},
volume={E94-B},
number={1},
pages={150-157},
abstract={The objective of this study is to investigate the feasibility of an ultra wideband (UWB) impulse radio system for in-body to off-body wireless communication for biomedical applications. At first, a UWB antenna is designed in the UWB low band for implant use in the chest. Then the channel model is extracted and established based on the finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation with an anatomical human body model. The established channel model consists of a small set of parameters for generating discrete time impulse responses. The generated model shows good agreement with the FDTD-calculated result in terms of key communication metrics. For effective communication over the multipath-affected channel, the pulse position modulation is employed and a 2-finger RAKE structure with a constant temporal delay is proposed in the receiver. The bit error rate performance has shown the validity of the system in the in-body to off-body chest channel.},
keywords={},
doi={10.1587/transcom.E94.B.150},
ISSN={1745-1345},
month={January},}

Copy

TY - JOUR
TI - Transmission Performance of an In-Body to Off-Body UWB Communication Link
T2 - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
SP - 150
EP - 157
AU - Jianqing WANG
AU - Kenichiro MASAMI
AU - Qiong WANG
PY - 2011
DO - 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.150
JO - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
SN - 1745-1345
VL - E94-B
IS - 1
JA - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Y1 - January 2011
AB - The objective of this study is to investigate the feasibility of an ultra wideband (UWB) impulse radio system for in-body to off-body wireless communication for biomedical applications. At first, a UWB antenna is designed in the UWB low band for implant use in the chest. Then the channel model is extracted and established based on the finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation with an anatomical human body model. The established channel model consists of a small set of parameters for generating discrete time impulse responses. The generated model shows good agreement with the FDTD-calculated result in terms of key communication metrics. For effective communication over the multipath-affected channel, the pulse position modulation is employed and a 2-finger RAKE structure with a constant temporal delay is proposed in the receiver. The bit error rate performance has shown the validity of the system in the in-body to off-body chest channel.
ER -