Abstract
In Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), body-attached devices communicate with each other to form services around the human body. To design WBANs, Intra-body Communication (IBC) uses electro-magnetic (EM) wave signals and utilizes the human body as the communication medium, rather than using the surrounding air with RF signals. IBC allows the air medium to be freely used by other services while offering WBAN services and shows lower energy consumption compared to RF-based nodes. In this work, we conducted a pair of experiments to obtain knowledge on the signal attenuation and signal propagation latency characteristics of EM waves on the human body. Our results show that the average attenuation observed from a human body was -27dB in a capacitively-coupled circuit and -36dB in galvanically-coupled circuit, and the propagation delay of EM waves on the human body was 0.94ns per cm. These findings can be further utilized to design more complex protocols for IBC networks.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 102-105 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450359665 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 Oct 8 |
| Event | 2018 Joint ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2018 and 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2018 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 2018 Oct 8 → 2018 Oct 12 |
Publication series
| Name | UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers |
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Other
| Other | 2018 Joint ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2018 and 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2018 |
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| Country/Territory | Singapore |
| City | Singapore |
| Period | 18/10/8 → 18/10/12 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work has been supported by the Future Combat System Network Technology Research Center program of Defense Acquisition Program Administration and Agency for Defense Development(UD160070BD).
Publisher Copyright:
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Information Systems
