Cooperative communications in ultra-wideband wireless body area networks: Channel modeling and system diversity analysis

Y Chen, J Teo, JCY Lai, E Gunawan… - IEEE Journal on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we explore the application of cooperative communications in ultra-wideband
(UWB) wireless body area networks (BANs), where a group of on-body devices may …

Cooperative body-area-communications: First and second-order statistics with decode-and-forward

DB Smith, D Miniutti - 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Characterization of cooperative communications, for theeveryday'body-area-network (BAN)
wireless channel is presented. Performance analysis is given based on many hours of …

Cooperative body-area-communications: Enhancing coexistence without coordination between networks

J Dong, D Smith - 2012 IEEE 23rd international symposium on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, coexistence of multiple mobile wireless body area networks (WBANs), where
there is no coordination between WBANs, is investigated for the case where the WBAN-of …

Comprehensive performance analysis of fully cooperative communication in WBANs

LC Tran, A Mertins, X Huang, F Safaei - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While relay-based cooperative networks (widely known in the literature as cooperative
communication), where relays only forward signals from the sources to the destination, have …

Towards efficient wireless body area network using two-way relay cooperation

M Waheed, R Ahmad, W Ahmed, M Drieberg, MM Alam - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
The fabrication of lightweight, ultra-thin, low power and intelligent body-borne sensors leads
to novel advances in wireless body area networks (WBANs). Depending on the placement of …

A performance evaluation of cooperative schemes for on-body area networks based on measured time-variant channels

R D'Errico, R Rosini, M Maman - 2011 IEEE International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present a performance evaluation of cooperative approaches in Body Area
Networks (BANs). A full-mesh topology of the on-body network is considered. The …

Experimental investigation of ultra wideband diversity techniques for on-body radio communications

QH Abbasi, M Khan, S Liaqat, M Kamran… - Progress In …, 2013 - jpier.org
This paper presents an experimental investigations and analyses of ultra-wideband antenna
diversity techniques and their effect on the onbody radio propagation channels. Various …

Experimental analysis of ultra-wideband body-to-body communication channel characterization in an indoor environment

R Bharadwaj, SK Koul - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an experimental and analytical investigation of ultra-wideband (3-8
GHz) body-to-body (B-to-B) channel characterization. The channel parameters obtained are …

Improving energy efficiency of incremental relay based cooperative communications in wireless body area networks

KS Deepak, AV Babu - International Journal of Communication …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we investigate the energy efficiency of an incremental relay based cooperative
communication scheme in wireless body area networks (WBANs). We derive analytical …

Simulation-based scenario-specific channel modeling for wban cooperative transmission schemes

J Naganawa, K Wangchuk, M Kim… - IEEE journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are an emerging technology for realizing efficient
healthcare and remote medicine for the aging society of the future. In order to improve the …