Cooperative communications for sleep monitoring in wireless body area networks. Issue 8 (1st April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shimly, S.M.; Movassaghi, S.; Smith, D.B.
• Is Part Of: Electronics letters. Volume 52:Issue 8(2016)
• Page Start: 594
• Page End: 596
• Publication Date: 2016-04-01
• Subjects: body area networks -- wireless sensor networks -- biomedical telemetry -- wireless channels -- sleep; sleep monitoring -- wireless body area networks -- WBAN radio channel -- IEEE 802.15.6 Standard -- two‐hop communications -- 3‐branch cooperative selection combining -- 3‐branch cooperative switch‐and‐examine combining; Electronics -- Periodicals; 621.381
• DOI: 10.1049/el.2015.3008
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-5194

Abstract

Abstract : The performance of cooperative receive diversity is investigated, for the wireless body area network (WBAN) radio channel, compliant with the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard, in the case of monitoring a sleeping person. Extensive WBAN measurements near the 2.4 GHz ISM band were used. Up to 7 dB and 20% improvement for two‐hop communications with the use of relays are empirically demonstrated with respect to outage probability and outage duration, with the 3‐branch cooperative selection combining and the 3‐branch cooperative switch‐and‐examine combining.