An experimental investigation into the influence of user state and environment on fading characteristics in wireless body area networks at 2.45 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-12

  Cotton, Simon L ^a   Scanlon, William G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodyworn antennas; Channel characterization; On body propagation; Wireless body area networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FADING (RADIO); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BODYWORN ANTENNAS; CANDIDATE MODELS; CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FADING CHARACTERISTICS; FADING CONDITIONS; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; LOG NORMALS; MOBILE CHANNELS; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI-M DISTRIBUTIONS; NAKAGAMI-M PARAMETERS; ON-BODY PROPAGATION; SECOND-ORDER STATISTICS; SMALL-SCALE FADING; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 61349141943     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2009.070788     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. T. Rappaport, "UHF fading in factories," IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol. 7, pp. 40-48, Jan. 1989.
2. R. J. C. Bultitude, "Measurement, characterization and modeling of indoor 800/900 MHz radio channels for digital communications," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 25, pp. 5-12, June 1987.
3. A. Saleh and R. Valenzuela, "A statistical model for indoor multipath propagation," IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol. 5, pp. 128-137, Feb. 1987.
4. IEEE Std. 802.15.1-2002, "IEEE Standard for Information Technology, Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems, Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Specific Requirements, Part 15.1: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Wireless Personal Area Networks," 2002.
5. IEEE Standards for Information Technology Part 15.4: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPANs), IEEE Std. 802.15.4-2003, 2003.
6. U. Varshney and S. Sneha, "Patient monitoring using adhoc wireless networks: Reliability and power management," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 44, pp. 49-55, Apr. 2006.
7. N. Herscovici, C. Christodoulou, E. Kyriacou, M. S. Pattichis, C. S. Pattichis, A. Panayides, and A. Pitsillides, "m-health e-emergency systems: current status and future directions," IEEE Antennas Propagat. Mag., vol. 49, pp. 216-231, Feb. 2007.
8. th IEEE Intl. Symp. Personal, Indoor & Mobile Radio Comms. (PIMRC), pp. 1-5, Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 2006.
9. S. L. Cotton and W. G. Scanlon, "Characterization and modeling of the indoor radio channel at 868 MHz for a mobile bodyworn wireless personal area network," IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 6, pp. 51-55, 2007.
10. A. Alomainy, Y. Hao, A. Owadally, C. G. Parini, Y. Nechayev, C. C. Constantinou, and P. S. Hall, "Statistical analysis and performance evaluation for on-body radio propagation with microstrip patch antennas," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 55, pp. 245-248, Jan. 2007.
11. A. Fort, J. Ryckaert, C. Desset, P. De Doncker, P. Wambacq, and L. Van Biesen, "Ultra-wideband channel model for communication around the human body," IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol. 24, pp. 927-933, Apr. 2006.
12. A. Fort, C. Desset, P. De Doncker, P. Wambacq, and L. Van Biesen, "An ultra-wideband body area propagation channel Model-from statistics to implementation," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 54, pp. 1820-1826, June 2006.
13. S. L. Cotton and W. G. Scanlon, "The κ-μ distribution applied to the analysis of fading in body to body communications channels for fire and rescue personnel," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Lett., vol. 7, pp. 66-69, 2008.
14. S. L. Cotton and W. G. Scanlon, "Indoor channel characterisation for a wearable antenna array at 868 MHz," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Commun. & Networking Conf., pp. 1783-1788, Apr. 2006.
15. H. Akaike, "A new look at the statistical model identification, " IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, vol. 19, pp. 716-723, Dec. 1974.
16. M. Nakagami, "The m-distribution: a general formula of intensity distribution of rapid fading," in Statistical Methods in Radio Wave Propagation. New York: Pergamon, pp. 3-36, 1960.
17. th Intl. Symp. Spread Spectrum Tech. & Appl., vol. 3, pp. 1244-1247, 1996.
18. M. D. Yacoub, J. E. V. Bautistu, and L. Guerra de Rezende Guedes, "On higher order statistics of the Nakagami-m distribution," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 48, pp. 790-794, May 1999.
19. K. I. Ziri-Castro, W. G, Scanlon, and N. E. Evans, "Measured pedestrian movement and bodyworn terminal effects for the indoor channel at 5.2 GHz," Europ. Trans. Telecommun., vol. 14, pp. 529-538, Jan. 2004.
20. S. L. Cotton and W. G. Scanlon, "Higher order statistics for lognormal small-scale fading in mobile radio channels," IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 6, pp. 540-543, 2007.
21. J. C. S. S. Filho, M. D. Yacoub, and G. Fraidenraich, "A simple accurate method for generating autocorrelated Nakagami-m envelope sequences," IEEE Commun, Lett., vol. 11, pp. 231-233, Mar. 2007.
22. W. G. Scanlon and N. E. Evans, "Numerical analysis of bodyworn UHF antenna systems," IEE Electronics & Commun. Eng. J., vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 53-64, Apr. 2001.
23. C. Gabriel, "4-Cole-Cole analysis on compilation of the dielectric properties of body tissues at RF and microwave frequencies," Brooks Air Force Technical Report AUOE-TR-1996-0037, 1996.
24. J. Ryckaert, P. Doncker, R. Meys, A. de Le Hoye, and S. Donnay, "Channel model for wireless communication around human body," Electron. Lett., vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 543-544, Apr. 2004.