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Ultra Wideband Wireless Body Area Networks

By Jean-Michel Redouté , Kasun Maduranga Silva Thotahewa , Mehmet Rasit Yuce (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
978-3-319-05286-1, 978-3-319-05287-8
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-05287-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8615718 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
173\180
Time added
2014-06-12 06:00:00
Circuits and Systems; Biomedical Engineering; SignImage and Speech Processing; Communications EngineNetworks

Description

This book explores the design of ultra wideband (UWB) technology for wireless body-area networks (WBAN). The authors describe a novel implementation of WBAN sensor nodes that use UWB for data transmission and narrow band for data reception, enabling low power sensor nodes, with high data rate capability. The discussion also includes power efficient, medium access control (MAC) protocol design for UWB based WBAN applications and the authors present a MAC protocol in which a guaranteed delivery mechanism is utilized to transfer data with high priority. Readers will also benefit from this book’s feasibility analysis of the UWB technology for human implant applications through the study of electromagnetic and thermal power absorption of human tissue that is exposed to UWB signals.

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