CBDK01: Body-Area Networks(1)

Thursday, August 21  08:00-09:40,  Room #20

Session Chairs: Kamya Yekeh Yazdandoost, Raffaele D’Errico

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is a small-scale communications network that operates inside, on, or in the peripheral proximity of a human body. In recent years WBANs are gaining more and more attentions due to the great number of possible applications. Medical, sport, fitness, and entertainment are just few examples of areas where WBANs could find useful employments. The basic concept of WBAN is to transfer the vital signs of a patient, sports man, fireman, and so on to the respectful unit for further action. In particular, the medical motivation is to increase survival rates and improvement of health outcomes with easy and fast diagnosis and treatment. The goal for homecare services is to improve quality of life and independence for patients by supporting care at home. The wireless body area networks promise to revolutionize health monitoring. However, designers of such systems face a number of challenging tasks. The session will focus on the main technological challenges such as radio propagation and channel modeling in, on and around the body, antennas, low-power and energy-harvesting sensors and transmission nodes, in a word, all the key technologies that are crucial for the implementation of a WBAN.

8:00  CBDK01.1   THE WIRELESS BODY ENVIRONMENT IN 5G MOBILE NETWORKS FROM EU COST IC1004 PERSPECTIVE

N. Cardona

iTEAM Research Institute. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain


8:20  CBDK01.2   OBSERVATIONS FROM ULTRA WIDEBAND ON-BODY RADIO CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS

M. I. Hämäläinen, T. Kumpuniemi, J. Iinatti

Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland


8:40  CBDK01.3   CHARACTERISTICS OF SHADOWED FADING IN OFF-BODY COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS AT 2.45 GHZ

S. Cotton

ECIT Institute, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom


9:00  CBDK01.4   FDTD-BASED ANTENNA DE-EMBEDDING IN WBAN ON-BODY CHANNEL MODELING

J. -I. Naganawa1, M. Kim1, T. Aoyagi2, J. -I. Takada1

1Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
2Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan


9:20  CBDK01.5   WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS - STATUS AND TESTFACILITIES

P. Van Daele, P. Demeester, I. Moerman

INTEC, iMinds - IMEC - Ghent University, Gent, Belgium