Preliminary characterization of impulse radio intrabody communication

Abstract

Intrabody communications (IBC) is a promising data communication technique for body area networks in biomedical applications. This short distance communication approach transmits signals through body tissue forming a wireless network among on-body sensors. It is defined as one of the physical layers for the new IEEE 802.15.6 or Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) standard. It is meaningful to investigate the characterization of the IBC communication system for wearable and implantable biomedical applications. In this paper, an impulse radio (IR) type of transmitter was developed for galvanic coupling type IBC. A carrier-free transmission is implemented in a field programmable gate array (FPGA)..