A Software Defined Radio Evaluation Platform for WBAN Systems
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada
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National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
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Sensors 2018, 18(12), 4494; https://doi.org/10.3390/s18124494
Received: 31 October 2018
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Revised: 29 November 2018
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Accepted: 15 December 2018
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Published: 19 December 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Body Area Networks and Connected Health)
In recent years, the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) concept has attracted significant academic and industrial attention. WBAN specifies a network dedicated to collecting personal biomedical data from advanced sensors that are then used for health and lifestyle purposes. In 2012, the 802.15.6 WBAN standard was released by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which regulates and specifies the configurations of WBAN. Compared to the prevailing wireless communication technologies such as Bluetooth and ZigBee, the WBAN standard has the advantages of ultra-low power consumption, high reliability, and high-security protection while transmitting sensitive personal data. Based on the standard specification, several implementations have been published. However, in terms of evaluation, different designs were implemented in proprietary evaluation environments, which may lead to unfair comparison. In this paper, a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) evaluation platform for WBAN systems is proposed to evaluate the RF channel specified in the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. A narrowband communication protocol demonstration with a security scheme in WBAN has been performed to successfully validate the design in the proposed evaluation platform.
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Wang, J.; Han, K.; Chen, Z.; Alexandridis, A.; Zilic, Z.; Pang, Y.; Lin, J. A Software Defined Radio Evaluation Platform for WBAN Systems. Sensors 2018, 18, 4494. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18124494
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Wang J, Han K, Chen Z, Alexandridis A, Zilic Z, Pang Y, Lin J. A Software Defined Radio Evaluation Platform for WBAN Systems. Sensors. 2018; 18(12):4494. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18124494
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Junchao, Kaining Han, Zhiyu Chen, Anastasios Alexandridis, Zeljko Zilic, Yu Pang, and Jinzhao Lin. 2018. "A Software Defined Radio Evaluation Platform for WBAN Systems" Sensors 18, no. 12: 4494. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18124494
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