Advances in Body-Centric Wireless Communication: Applications and State-of-the-art

Description

Body-centric wireless networking (BCWN) and communications is an emerging 4G technology for short (1-5m) and very short (below 1m) range communications systems, with great potential for applications in healthcare delivery, entertainment, surveillance, and emergency services. This book brings together contributions from a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the field of wireless and mobile communications, signal processing and medical measurements, to present the underlying theory, implementation challenges and applications of this exciting new technology. Topics covered include antennas and radio systems design challenges for BCWNs; on/off body propagation and modelling at narrow band frequencies; ultra wideband radio channel characterization and system modelling for BANs; millimeter-wave radio propagation for BCWN; implantable devices and in-vivo communication challenges for medical technologies; diversity and MIMO front-ends for efficient body-centric wireless communications; on-body antennas and radio channels for GPS applications; materials characterization and flexible structure design for textile-based wearable applications in military and consumer applications; ultra wideband body-centric networks for localization and motion capture; down-scaling to the nano-scale in body-centric nano-networks; and the road ahead for body-centric wireless communication and networks. Advances in Body-Centric Wireless Communication will be of interest to researchers in academia and industry working in telecommunications engineering, antenna design, mobile and wireless networks, and healthcare technologies Content: Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Diversity and cooperative communications in body area networksChapter 3: Ultra wideband radio channel characterisation for body-centric wireless communicationChapter 4: Sparse characterization of body-centric radio channelsChapter 5: Antenna/human body interactions in the 60 GHz band: state of knowledge and recent advancesChapter 6: Antennas for ingestible capsule telemetryChapter 7: In vivo wireless channel modelingChapter 8: Diversity and MIMO for efficient front-end design of body-centric wireless communications devicesChapter 9: On-body antennas and radio channels for GPS applicationsChapter 10: Textile substrate integrated waveguide technology for the next-generation wearable microwave systemsChapter 11: Ultra wideband body-centric networks for localisation and motion capture applicationsChapter 12: Down scaling to the nano-scale in body-centric nano-networksChapter 13: The road ahead for body-centric wireless communication and networks