Skip to main content
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Download PDF
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Open access
  • Published:

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

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume 2010, Article number: 312129 (2010) Cite this article

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.

Publisher note

To access the full article, please see PDF.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

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

    Sana Ullah, Shahnaz Saleem, Niamat Ullah & KyungSup Kwak

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

    Henry Higgins

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

    Yingji Zhong

Authors
  1. Sana Ullah
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Shahnaz Saleem
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Henry Higgins
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Niamat Ullah
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Yingji Zhong
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. KyungSup Kwak
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Shahnaz Saleem.

Rights and permissions

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Ullah, S., Saleem, S., Higgins, H. et al. Evaluation of Implant Communication with Polarisation and Unslotted CSMA/CA Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks. J Wireless Com Network 2010, 312129 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/312129

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

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

Keywords