A Novel Intrabody Communication Transceiver for Biomedical Applications

This monograph explores Intrabody communication (IBC) as a novel non-RF wireless data communication technique using the human body itself as the communication channel or transmission medium. In particular, the book investigates Intrabody Communication considering limb joint effects within the transmission frequency range 0.3-200 MHz.
Based on in-vivo experiments which determine the effects of size, situations, and locations of joints on the IBC, the book proposes a new IBC circuit model explaining elbow joint effects. This model not only takes the limb joint effects of the body into account but also considers the influence of measurement equipment in higher frequency band thus predicting signal attenuation behavior over wider frequency ranges. Finally, this work proposes transmitter and receiver architectures for intrabody communication. A carrier-free scheme based on impulse radio for the IBC is implemented on a FPGA.

List of contents

Introduction.- Literature Review.- Experimental Methodology.- Empirical Measurement.- Body Channel Modeling.- IBC System Design.

Summary

This monograph explores Intrabody communication (IBC) as a novel non-RF wireless data communication technique using the human body itself as the communication channel or transmission medium. In particular, the book investigates Intrabody Communication considering limb joint effects within the transmission frequency range 0.3-200 MHz.
Based on in-vivo experiments which determine the effects of size, situations, and locations of joints on the IBC, the book proposes a new IBC circuit model explaining elbow joint effects. This model not only takes the limb joint effects of the body into account but also considers the influence of measurement equipment in higher frequency band thus predicting signal attenuation behavior over wider frequency ranges. Finally, this work proposes transmitter and receiver architectures for intrabody communication. A carrier-free scheme based on impulse radio for the IBC is implemented on a FPGA.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Tze Huei Lai, Daniel Lai, Mir Hojja Seyedi, Mir Hojjat Seyedi
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9789811028236
• ISBN: 978-981-10-2823-6
• No. of pages: 108
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 244 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 315 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 108 p. 77 illus., 69 illus. in color.
• Series: Series in BioEngineering; Springer; Series in BioEngineering; Bioengineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; B, engineering, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Signal Processing, Electronics, Microelectronics, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Biomedical engineering, Speech processing systems, Digital and Analog Signal Processing, Imaging systems & technology, Image processing