Abstract
In recent years, the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) concept has attracted significant academic and industrial attention. WBAN specifies a network dedicated to collecting personal biomedical data from advanced sensors that are then used for health and lifestyle purposes. In 2012, the 802.15.6 WBAN standard was released by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which regulates and specifies the configurations of WBAN. Compared to the prevailing wireless communication technologies such as Bluetooth and ZigBee, the WBAN standard has the advantages of ultra-low power consumption, high reliability, and high-security protection while transmitting sensitive personal data. Based on the standard specification, several implementations have been published. However, in terms of evaluation, different designs were implemented in proprietary evaluation environments, which may lead to unfair comparison. In this paper, a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) evaluation platform for WBAN systems is proposed to evaluate the RF channel specified in the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. A narrowband communication protocol demonstration with a security scheme in WBAN has been performed to successfully validate the design in the proposed evaluation platform.
Highlights
Based on the data provided by the Canadian Institution for Health Information (CIHI), the average health expenditure for every individual in Canada was 6604 Canadian dollars in 2017, which requires11.5% of the overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP), up from only 7% of the GDP in 1975
As specified in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.6 wireless body area network standard [11], the transmission flow of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is mainly separated into four parts, which are the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, security scheme, and Physical (PHY) layer, as shown in Initially, the MAC layer specifies the MAC frame format and the communication modes in the network [12], which requires a Microcontroller Unit (MCU) to process
With the development of modern technology, it becomes possible to establish an intelligent healthcare system that increases the efficiency of conventional medical systems
Summary
Junchao Wang 1 , Kaining Han 2, *, Zhiyu Chen 1 , Anastasios Alexandridis 1 , Zeljko Zilic 1 , Yu Pang 3 and Jinzhao Lin 3. National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China. Received: 31 October 2018; Accepted: 15 December 2018; Published: 19 December 2018
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