Wireless Human Body Communication Technology_Journal of Biomedical Engineering

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SUNLei ,  ZHANGXiaojuan

College of Science, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China;

Corresponding author：

ZHANGXiaojuan, Email: lzhangxiaojuan@126.com

Keywords：

human body communication model; body area communications; digital transmission; adaptive frequency hopping

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10.7507/1001-5515.20140263

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The Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a key part of the wearable monitoring technologies, which has many communication technologies to choose from, like Bluetooth, ZigBee, Ultra Wideband, and Wireless Human Body Communication (WHBC). As for the WHBC developed in recent years, it is worthy to be further studied. The WHBC has a strong momentum of growth and a natural advantage in the formation of WBAN. In this paper, we first briefly describe the technical background of WHBC, then introduce theoretical model of human-channel communication and digital transmission machine based on human channel. And finally we analyze various of the interference of the WHBC and show the AFH (Adaptive Frequency Hopping) technology which can effectively deal with the interference.

Citation： SUNLei, ZHANGXiaojuan. Wireless Human Body Communication Technology. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2014, 31(6): 1389-1393. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.20140263 Copy

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1. RHEE W, XU N, ZHOU B, et al. Low power, non invasive UWB systems for WBAN and biomedical applications[C]//2010 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC). Jeju:2010:35-40.
2. ARYO J, LAI D. A prototype ZigBee to Bluetooth gateway for emerging body area network application[C]//20114th Annual Caneus Fly by Wireless Workshop (FBW). Montreal QC:2011:1.
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4. MERCIER P P, CHANDRAKASAN A P. A Supply-Rail-Coupled eTextiles Transceiver for Body-Area Networks[J]. IEEE J Solid-State Circ, 2011, 46(6):1284-1295.
5. SAITO K, KITAO K, IMAI T, et al. Human-body shadowing modeling for indoor quasi-static MIMO channels[C]//201210th International Symposium on Antennas, Propagation & EM Theory (ISAPE). Xi'an:2012:608-611.
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14. XU R Y, ZHU H J, YUAN J. Electric-field intrabody communication channel modeling with finite-element method[J]. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 2011, 58(3):705-712.
15. XU R Y, NG W C, ZHU H J, et al. Equation environment coupling and interference on the electric-field intrabody communication channel[J]. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 2012, 59(7):2051-2059.
16. WANG J Q, NISHIKAWA Y, SHIBATA T. Analysis of on-body transmission mechanism and characteristic based on an electromagnetic fieldapproach[J]. IEEE Trans Microw Theory Tech, 2009, 57(10):2464-2470.
17. FUJⅡ K, TAKAHASHI M, ITO K. Electric field distributions of wearable devices using the human body as a transmission channel[J]. IEEE Trans Antennas Propag, 2010, 55(7):2080-2087.
18. BAE J, CHO H, SONG K, et al. The signal transmission mechanism on the surface of human body for body channel communication[J]. IEEE Trans Microw Theory Tech, 2012, 60(3):582-593.
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24. BAEK J, LEE Y, CHOI J. A wideband ZOR on-body antenna for WBAN applications[C]//2012 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP). Nagoys:2012:975-978.

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