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http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.15.0114.1029

Analysis on Co-channel Interference of Human Body Communication Supporting IEEE 802.15.6 BAN Standard  

Hwang, Jung-Hwan (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Media Research Laboratory, ETRI, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST)
Kang, Tae-Wook (SW & Contents Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Kim, Youn-Tae (Department of IT Fusion Technology, Chosun University)
Park, Seong-Ook (Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST)
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ETRI Journal / v.37, no.3, 2015 , pp. 439-449 More about this Journal
Abstract
Human body communication (HBC) is being recognized as a new communication technology for mobile and wearable devices in a body area network (BAN). This paper presents co-channel interference experienced by HBC supporting the physical layer in the IEEE 802.15.6 BAN standard. To analyze the co-channel interference, a co-channel interference model is introduced, and space-domain and time-domain parameters representing an interference environment are generated using the co-channel interference model. A new signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) parameter depending on the peak amplitudes of the data signals causing co-channel interference is defined; co-channel interference can be easily analyzed and modelled using the newly defined SIR. The BER degradation model derived using the co-channel interference model and SIR in this paper can be effectively used to estimate the performance.
Keywords
Human body communication; co-channel interference; BER degradation;
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