Abstract
Intrabody communication has been of great research interest in recent years. This paper proposes a novel, compact but accurate body transmission channel model based on RC distribution networks and transmission line theory. The comparison between simulation and measurement results indicates that the proposed approach accurately models the body channel characteristics. In addition, the impedance-matching networks at the transmitter output and the receiver input further maximize the power transferred to the receiver, relax the receiver complexity, and increase the transmission performance. Based on the simulation results, the power gain can be increased by up to 16 dB after matching. A binary phase-shift keying modulation scheme is also used to evaluate the bit-error-rate improvement.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 7130567 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1044-1052 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Binary phase-shift keying (BPSK)
- bit error rate (BER)
- body area network (BAN)
- body channel modeling
- cascaded network
- impedance matching
- intrabody communication (IBC)
- power gain
- transmission line (TL)