TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 for on/off body communications
AU - Amini, Navid
AU - Xu, Wenyao
AU - Li, Zhinan
AU - Huang, Ming Chun
AU - Sarrafzadeh, Majid
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - body-wearable sensor networks
KW - received signal strenth
KW - transmission power control
KW - Zigbee
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84863260504
U2 - 10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139893
DO - 10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139893
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863260504
SN - 9781457713484
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC
SP - 2138
EP - 2142
BT - 2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC'11
T2 - 2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC'11
Y2 - 11 September 2011 through 14 September 2011
ER -