Numerical Simulations for Wearable BAN Propagation Channel during Various Human Movements

Takahiro AOYAGI  Minseok KIM  Jun-ichi TAKADA  Kiyoshi HAMAGUCHI  Ryuji KOHNO  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E94-B   No.9   pp.2496-2500
Publication Date: 2011/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.2496
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Information Communication Technology for Highly Reliable Human Health Care Services)
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Keyword: 
body area network,  medical support,  healthcare service,  electromagnetic wave propagation,  dynamic channel model,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we performed six human movement simulation by a commercial software (Poser7). We performed FDTD simulations for body area network propagation with one transmitter and six receivers. Received amplitudes were calculated for every time frame of 1/30 s interval. We also demonstrated a polarization diversity effectiveness for dynamic wearable body area network propagation.