Doppler Characterization in Ultra Wideband BAN Channels During Breathing
Monitoring the physical parameters from devices inside the body, using ultra wideband (UWB) technology, enables the development of high bandwidth demanding applications in real time. The relative movement of the nodes deployed in the body, due to breathing, can give rise to a frequency shifting effe...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena(UPCT) |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Digital UPCT |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.upct.es:10317/13162 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10317/13162 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8897133 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Body area networks (BAN) Doppler Channel characterization Implant communications Ultra wideband (UWB) Breathing Teoría de la Señal y las Comunicaciones 3325.05 Radiocomunicaciones |
| Sumario: | Monitoring the physical parameters from devices inside the body, using ultra wideband (UWB) technology, enables the development of high bandwidth demanding applications in real time. The relative movement of the nodes deployed in the body, due to breathing, can give rise to a frequency shifting effect, increasing the fading level in the propagation channel during transmissions. In this article, therefore, we present a study of the frequency effects on the propagation channel derived from the relative movement between two nodes of a wireless body area network (WBAN), at least one of them placed inside the human body, caused by breathing. The study is performed on the basis of the Doppler spectrum characterization in terms of the shape fitting and frequency spread parameter derivation. Continuous wave (CW) signals have been used to cover the UWB range at four selected frequencies: 3.1, 4.8, 6, and 8.5 GHz, and a liquid phantom has been employed for emulating the dielectric properties of the high water content tissues at the considered UWB frequencies. |
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