TY - GEN
T1 - Dynamic narrowband body area communications
T2 - IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2010, WCNC 2010
AU - Smith, David B.
AU - Miniutti, Dino
AU - Hanlen, Leif W.
AU - Rodda, David
AU - Gilbert, Ben
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A dynamic narrowband on-body area communications scenario is characterized with respect to link margin as a difference between system operating point, in terms of receive power, and receiver sensitivity. The characterization is based on an extensive measurement campaign near the 900 MHz ISM bands, with a number of different human subjects moving at a range of speeds in an indoor-office scenario. Key implications for operating reliability in terms of outages, meeting latency requirements, infeasibility of interleaving and limits upon packet duration are drawn from this link margin analysis pertinent to body-area-communications system design. The need for receive hardware with good receiver sensitivity is highlighted. Further to this context important second-order statistics are given, such as fade duration, as well as a novel measure: average fade magnitude. Distributions are given to accurately characterize these second order statistics. Along with link margin analysis, this modeling can be used to verify possible implementations, and help in system design.
AB - A dynamic narrowband on-body area communications scenario is characterized with respect to link margin as a difference between system operating point, in terms of receive power, and receiver sensitivity. The characterization is based on an extensive measurement campaign near the 900 MHz ISM bands, with a number of different human subjects moving at a range of speeds in an indoor-office scenario. Key implications for operating reliability in terms of outages, meeting latency requirements, infeasibility of interleaving and limits upon packet duration are drawn from this link margin analysis pertinent to body-area-communications system design. The need for receive hardware with good receiver sensitivity is highlighted. Further to this context important second-order statistics are given, such as fade duration, as well as a novel measure: average fade magnitude. Distributions are given to accurately characterize these second order statistics. Along with link margin analysis, this modeling can be used to verify possible implementations, and help in system design.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955032121&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506769
DO - 10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506769
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781424463985
T3 - IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
BT - 2010 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2010 - Proceedings
Y2 - 18 April 2010 through 21 April 2010
ER -