TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling of body area network in medical healthcare applications
AU - Li, Yin Lin
AU - Huang, Zhong Hua
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Body Area Network (BAN) can be used in wirelessly interconnection of the small and intelligent (bio) medic sensors attached to or implanted into the human body for medical healthcare. This paper modified the conventional model of the channel of BAN and addressed the issues for the hardware system implementation. Based on the equivalent circuit model, the influences of all equivalent capacitors are analyzed. Experiments are conducted to simulate the changes of equivalent capacitors. The relationship of channel gain and the changes of equivalent capacitors are determined. The conclusion is, in the system design of body area communication based on quasi-electrostatic field, enlarging the size of transceiver electrodes, reducing the distance between electrodes and human body, grounding the transceiver, reducing the capacitors between human body and earth could increase the receiver signal amplitude.
AB - Body Area Network (BAN) can be used in wirelessly interconnection of the small and intelligent (bio) medic sensors attached to or implanted into the human body for medical healthcare. This paper modified the conventional model of the channel of BAN and addressed the issues for the hardware system implementation. Based on the equivalent circuit model, the influences of all equivalent capacitors are analyzed. Experiments are conducted to simulate the changes of equivalent capacitors. The relationship of channel gain and the changes of equivalent capacitors are determined. The conclusion is, in the system design of body area communication based on quasi-electrostatic field, enlarging the size of transceiver electrodes, reducing the distance between electrodes and human body, grounding the transceiver, reducing the capacitors between human body and earth could increase the receiver signal amplitude.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77950107329&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ITIME.2009.5236454
DO - 10.1109/ITIME.2009.5236454
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77950107329
SN - 9781424439294
T3 - ITME2009 - Proceedings 2009 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine and Education
SP - 100
EP - 104
BT - ITME2009 - Proceedings 2009 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine and Education
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine and Education, ITME2009
Y2 - 14 August 2009 through 16 August 2009
ER -