@inproceedings{008f8d4eea684c97824f0a551545c872,
title = "Experimental analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 for on/off body communications",
abstract = "We target body-wearable sensor networks, in which sensor nodes are strategically placed on the human body and the wireless communications are conducted on/off the surface of the body. The results, obtained by performing multiple experiments in outdoor environments, are presented. A single on body transmitter communicates with a single receiver node, which is located on the body or off the body at various distances. Sensor nodes utilized in our experiments are equipped with XBee and XBee Pro wireless modules for on body and off body communications, respectively. The focus of our work is to observe how the Received Signal Strength (RSS) and the Packet Reception Rate (PRR) vary as we change the communication distance and transmission power level. Our experimental results can be used to perform transmission power control with high precision in order not to exceed a certain packet error rate.",
keywords = "Zigbee, body-wearable sensor networks, received signal strenth, transmission power control",
author = "Navid Amini and Wenyao Xu and Zhinan Li and Huang, \{Ming Chun\} and Majid Sarrafzadeh",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139893",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781457713484",
series = "IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "2138--2142",
booktitle = "2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC'11",
address = "United States",
note = "22nd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2011 ; Conference date: 11-09-2011 Through 14-09-2011",
}