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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/KICS.2011.36C.10.597

Group Manchester Code Scheme for Medical In-body WBAN Systems  

Choi, Il-Muk (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부 통신시스템 연구실)
Won, Kyung-Hoon (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부 통신시스템 연구실)
Choi, Hyung-Jin (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부 통신시스템 연구실)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.36, no.10C, 2011 , pp. 597-604 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose group Manchester code (GM) modulation scheme for medical in-body wireless body area network (WBAN) systems. In IEEE, the WBAN system is assigned as 802.15. Task Group 6 (TG 6), and the related standardization is being progressed, Recently, in this Group, group pulse position modulation (GPPM), which can obtain data rate increase by grouping pulse position modulation (PPM) symbols, is proposed as a new modulation scheme for low-power operation of WBAN system. However, the conventional method suffers from BER performance degradation due to the absence of gray coding and its demodulation characteristics. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a modified GM scheme which groups Manchester code instead of PPM. In the proposed GM scheme, a low-complexity maximum likelihood (ML) demodulation method is employed in order to maximize the BER performances, Also, log likelihood ratio (LLR) decision method is proposed to employ the Turbo code as forward error correction (FEC), Finally, we verified that the proposed method has a good performance and is an appropriate scheme for in-body WBAN system through extensive performance evaluation.
Keywords
WBAN; Grouping; PPM; Manchester code; GPPM; GM;
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