Impact of Hub Location on the Performance of Wireless Body Area Networks for Fitness Applications

Vit Sipal; Domenico Gaetano; Patrick McEvoy; Max J. Ammann

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2014.2376943

Impact of Hub Location on the Performance of Wireless Body Area Networks for Fitness Applications

Vit Sipal, Domenico Gaetano, Patrick McEvoy, Max J. Ammann

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This letter compares the propagation properties of wireless body area networks for three different locations (head, foot, and waist) of the hub/Internet gateway on the human body. The wireless channels between the hubs and four nodes (chest, back, and upper arms) are measured for frequencies between 5 and 7 GHz on a feMale and a Male subject performing push-ups and squats. A framework using path gain and fade depth metrics in spider plots is used for cumulative performance description. The results show that the best overall performance is for a hub located on the temple, and the worst overall performance is achieved for a hub on the waist. These results are expected to stimulate further research into the optimum hub placement on the human body.

Original language	English
Article number	6985533
Pages (from-to)	1522-1525
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2014.2376943
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Hub location
propagation
wireless body area network (WBAN)

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