Evaluation of Implant Communication with Polarisation and Unslotted CSMA/CA Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks

Sana Ullah; Shahnaz Saleem; Henry Higgins; Niamat Ullah; Yingji Zhong; KyungSup Kwak

doi:10.1155/2010/312129

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Evaluation of Implant Communication with Polarisation and Unslotted CSMA/CA Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks

Sana Ullah¹,
Shahnaz Saleem¹Email author,
Henry Higgins²,
Niamat Ullah¹,
Yingji Zhong³ and
KyungSup Kwak¹

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking20102010:312129

https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/312129

Received: 3 November 2009
Accepted: 21 January 2010
Published: 18 March 2010

Abstract

The performance of the implant inside a human body with polarisation, distance, and different power settings at the base-station is presented. In addition, the unslotted CSMA/CA protocol is studied for a heterogeneous WBAN.

Keywords

Information System
Human Body
System Application
Area Network
Power Setting

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)

Graduate School of IT and Telecommunication Engineering, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-Gu Incheon, 402-751, South Korea

(2)

Microelectronics Division, Zarlink Semiconductor Company, Castlegate Business Park, Portskewett, Caldicot, NP26 5YW, UK

(3)

School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China

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