- Title
- Transmit only UWB body area network for medical applications
- Creator
- Ho, Chee Keong; Yuce, Mehmet Rasit
- Relation
- Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, 2009 (APMC 2009). Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2009 (Singapore 7-10 December, 2009) p. 2200-2203
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APMC.2009.5385340
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- This paper investigates methods to enhance the reliability of an ultra-wideband transmit-only (UWB Tx-only) sensor system. UWB Tx-only system uses asynchronous burst transmission, where each individual sensor transmits periodically without prior knowledge of other users and the channel condition. The application of UWB Tx-only sensor system for wireless body area network (WBAN) in a single user and multiple user environments is presented. In a single user environment, the main source of interference is from the collision of transmitted signals from individual sensors on the body. In a multiple user scenario, apart from the interference due to collision, there is also another source of interference from transmitting sensors of nearby users. The two major factors affecting the system reliability are the signal to noise ratio and the probability of collisions. The signal to noise ratio can be enhanced with a higher transmission power, which can be achieved through the use of gated systems and by carefully optimizing the pulse repetitive frequency and the gating duty cycle when generating an UWB transmission signal. Meanwhile the collision probability in a Tx-only UWB WBAN system can be reduced by arranging unique transmission intervals. It is shown in this paper that the collision probability for the case of burst transmission can be reduced to less than twice that of a pulse transmission through careful selection of the transmission interval.
- Subject
- transmit only; tx-only; ultra wideband; UWB; wireless body area network; WBAN
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918651
- Identifier
- uon:8676
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781424428021
- Rights
- Copyright © 2009 IEEE. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2009. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of University of Newcastle's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.
- Language
- eng
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