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Wireless sensor networks can be employed in medical healthcare in many tasks such as, monitoring vital signs, controlling medical equipment, patient positioning, and in addition for non-medical service such as entertainment, psychophysiological detection of deception. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio is a revolutionary, power-limited, and rapidly evolving technology, which employs short pulses with ultra low power for communication and ranging. Compared to narrow systems, UWB systems have several advantages, such as fading robustness, low power consumption and low cost transceiver implementation. In this paper we evaluate an UWB-based body sensor networks communication with respect to signal propagation around a human body. The performance such as, node location, AWGN (Additive white Gaussian noise), ISI (Inter-Symbol Interference) effects on the BER (bit error rate) were evaluated.
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Chehri, A., Mouftah, H. (2010). Performance Analysis of UWB Body Sensor Networks for Medical Applications. In: Zheng, J., Simplot-Ryl, D., Leung, V.C.M. (eds) Ad Hoc Networks. ADHOCNETS 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17994-5_32
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