Statistical characterization of the 400 MHz in-body propagation channel in in-door environments

Yihuai Yang; Gengfa Fang; Eryk Dutkiewicz; Dongya Shen

doi:10.1109/ISCIT.2012.6380948

Statistical characterization of the 400 MHz in-body propagation channel in in-door environments

Yihuai Yang^*, Gengfa Fang, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Dongya Shen

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Engineering

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Abstract

Channel modeling is the starting point of effective, efficient body-centric communications. Many efforts [2]-[6] have been made to characterize the on-body area propagation channel in static scenarios at various frequency bands in an anechoic chamber. This paper presents an experimental investigation into the in-body channel in 400 MHz MICS Band. By taking into account the joint effect of human movement and multipath effects, the measurements have been conducted in a populated office at very short distances. The dynamic channel behaviour has been captured and based on the statistical analyses of fading duration, a six-state Semi-markov model that considers both Line of Sight (LOS) and Non Line of Sight (NLOS) cases is proposed. Parameters of the Semi-markov model are estimated from the measured data. The validity of this model is confirmed by comparison of the first order and second order statistics of the proposed model with the measured data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	48-53
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467311571, 9781467311557
ISBN (Print)	9781467311564
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCIT.2012.6380948
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2012
Event	2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012 - Gold Coast, QLD, Australia Duration: 2 Oct 2012 → 5 Oct 2012

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Other	2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Gold Coast, QLD
Period	2/10/12 → 5/10/12

Keywords

Medical Body Area Network (MBAN)
channel model
Markov model
no-body

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Yang, Y, Fang, G, Dutkiewicz, E & Shen, D 2012, Statistical characterization of the 400 MHz in-body propagation channel in in-door environments. in 2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012., 6380948, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 48-53, 2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 2/10/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCIT.2012.6380948

Statistical characterization of the 400 MHz in-body propagation channel in in-door environments. / Yang, Yihuai; Fang, Gengfa; Dutkiewicz, Eryk et al.
2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012. p. 48-53 6380948.

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