On the Optimum Data Carrier for Intra-body Communication Applications

Ahmed Khorshid; Ahmed Eltawil; Fadi Kurdahi

11th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

On the Optimum Data Carrier for Intra-body Communication Applications

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    author={Ahmed Khorshid and Ahmed Eltawil and Fadi Kurdahi},
    title={On the Optimum Data Carrier for Intra-body Communication Applications},
    proceedings={11th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
    year={2017},
    month={4},
    keywords={body area networks; intra-body communications; channel modeling},
    doi={10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267620}
}

Ahmed Khorshid
Ahmed Eltawil
Fadi Kurdahi
Year: 2017
On the Optimum Data Carrier for Intra-body Communication Applications
BODYNETS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267620

Ahmed Khorshid¹^,*, Ahmed Eltawil¹, Fadi Kurdahi¹

1: UCI

*Contact email: khorshia@uci.edu

Abstract

This paper provides a comparative study between the different available mediums, to be used as data carriers, for intra-body communications. Properties of these data carriers experienced while propagating through the body tissues are calculated using sets of experimental data available in literature and then compared to show which carrier has higher potential to meet the intra-body communication requirements. A simple accurate model is then presented for the signal transmission through the body. Parameters studied are the attenuation and delay while factoring the effect of biological differences due to age, gender etc.

Keywords: body area networks; intra-body communications; channel modeling

Published: 2017-04-24
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267620