A Novel Modulation Technique for High Data Rate Body Area Networks

Abstract

Population of the world is growing at rapid pace. It is becoming difficult to provide healthcare facilities to people in highly populous countries like China and India. One way to solve this problem is the development of medical infrastructure in the form of wireless Body Area Networks. The body area networks (BANs) tend to provide medical monitoring for patients. Prime concern in the BANs is the communication, which needs to be energy and bandwidth efficient. The paper presents a novel modulation format for BANs. We propose a novel idea that combines properties of continuous phase modulation and pulse position modulation techniques. The new modulation technique takes into account the Rayleigh nature of body area channel. Apart from being power efficient, the technique does not require large bandwidth.

Keywords:

• BER
• Body area networks
• Digital modulation
• FSK
• MSK
• PPM
• UWB
• Wireless communication

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Notes on contributors

Deepak Kumar Rout

Deepak Kumar Rout received his B Tech from BPUT, Rourkela, India in 2007 and M Tech from VSSUT, Burla India in 2011. He is currently with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of Synergy Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dhenkanal, India. His research areas include Body Area Networks, Wireless Networks, Mobile Computing, Signal Processing and Telemedicine. E-mail: [email protected]

Leena Samantaray

Leena Samantaray received her Ph.D.(Engg.) degree from Sambalpur University in 2010. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering of Ajaya Binaya Institute of Technology, Cuttack, India. She has more than 10 papers in International/National Journals and conferences. Her research areas include - Body Area Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Signal/Image Processing. E-mail: [email protected]

Rutuparna Panda

Rutuparna Panda received B.Sc Engg. and M. Sc. Engg. Degrees from UCE Burla in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He obtained Ph.D.(Engg) degree from IIT, KGP in 1998. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, VSS University of Technology Burla. He has guided 24 M.Tech Theses and 4 Ph.D. Theses. He has over 70 papers in International/National Journals and conferences. His area of research interests includes – Digital signal/image processing, VLSI Signal Processing, Body Area Networks and Bioinformatics. E-mail: [email protected]