8th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

An XOR Encoding for Wireless Body Area Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253570,
        author={Keigo Yokota and Akiko Manada and Hiroyoshi Morita},
        title={An XOR Encoding for Wireless Body Area Networks},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2013},
        month={10},
        keywords={wban xor encoding bch encoding concatenated encoding power consumption},
        doi={10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253570}
    }
    
  • Keigo Yokota
    Akiko Manada
    Hiroyoshi Morita
    Year: 2013
    An XOR Encoding for Wireless Body Area Networks
    BODYNETS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253570
Keigo Yokota1,*, Akiko Manada1, Hiroyoshi Morita1
  • 1: The University of Electro-Communications
*Contact email: yokota@appnet.is.uec.ac.jp

Abstract

Devices using Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have been gaining strong interest these days, especially in the medical area. Such devices must be constructed to reduce the power consumption, while the robustness against errors during transmission needs to be considered. In this paper, we propose some encoding methods which are low-power and strong against communication errors, by serially concatenating an XOR encoding and a BCH encoding.