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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2014.18.4.839

Performance Evaluation of WUSB over WBAN Communication Structure for Wireless Wearable Computers  

Hur, Kyeong (Department of Computer Education, Gyeongin National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.18, no.4, 2014 , pp. 839-847 More about this Journal
Abstract
A recent major development in computer technology is the advent of the wearable computer system that is based on human-centric interface technology trends and ubiquitous computing environments. Wearable computer systems can use the wireless universal serial bus (WUSB) that refers to USB technology that is merged with WiMedia PHY/MAC technical specifications. In this paper, we focus on an integrated system of the wireless USB over the wireless body area networks (WBAN) for wireless wearable computer systems supporting U-health services. To construct the WUSB over WBAN communication systems, we propose a WBAN beaconing structure to assign WUSB communication periods. In the proposed structure, WUSB uses private periods of WBAN. In our performance evaluations, we compare theoretical results and simulation results about throughputs of WUSB under various WBAN channel occupations to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed structure in WUSB over WBAN communications.
Keywords
U-health; WBAN (Wireless Body Area Networks); Wireless Home Networks; WUSB (Wireless Univeral Serial Bus); Wearable Computers;
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