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Keywords-intra-body communication; channel characteristics; low frequency
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IN TR ODU C T I ON
I� [6], a battery-powered signal generator is developed to slillulate an actual near-field coupled environment, and the measurement covered the frequency range from 100 kHz to 150 MHz. Reference [7] used a pair of baluns to float the tran�mi�er and receiver ONDs to approach practical applIcatIons, and they focus on 1 MHz to 10Hz. We used optical couplers to realize electrical isolation in [8] and channel characteristics between 300 kHz to 15MHz is measured. However, none of these studies focus on characteristics at low frequency, which is significant for baseband transmission. The complexity of baseband transmission system is lower than that of passband system, while most of consumer electronics exchange bits using baseband transmission. So the study on low frequency channel characteristics is meaningful. In this work, a measurement system for the investigation of body channel characteristics over a frequency range of 100 Hz to 20 MHz is proposed. Amplitude-frequency characteristics of body channel are acquired and low frequency band is covered. Two transceiver boards with wideband transformers are used to eliminate grounding interference brought by instruments. Based on the measurement of human body electrical behavior the appropriate frequency ranges for intra-body communicatio� are identified. II.
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MEA SUREMEN T METH OD
Intra-body communication is a new type of communication which using human body as a signal transmission channel. The electrical devices on and around human body are connected by employing this cable-free method. It has many advantages over conventional radio-based communication approaches. Since the mechanism o� communi�ation is based on near-field coupling, electromagnetIc waves m free space have little influence on si�al transmission an? �ignal cannot be intercepted easily. . Smce the SIgnal transmISSIOn frequency can be lowered without changing the antenna size, the power consumption is lower than other wir�less communication technologies, such as B�uetooth and ZIgbee [1], [2]. Intra-body communication has a WIde range of applications in personal health monitoring assistant system for the disabled, short-range data exchang� and body area networks (BAN) system. Th� �damental problem of communication system design . IS obtammg channel characteristics. It is the only factor that determines which technique should be chosen in a real communication application. Many groups have pay attention to how to measurement human body channel characteristics and their conclusions are different because of using different measurement methods. Reference [3] used a function generator . and an OSCIlloscope to get propagation gain of human body at frequencies between 1 MHz and 40 MHz, and 10 MHz was chosen as the best carrier frequency. In [4] and [5], a signal generator and a network analyzer were used and a frequency rang� of 1-3000 MHz was studied. But the two groups mentIoned above neglect�d the grounding problem caused by . grounded mstruments WhICh do not reproduce a real situation.
system design-body channel characteristics are studied in this work. The frequency range of body channel measurement is 100 Hz to 20 MHz which covers important low frequency bands for baseband transmission. A signal generator and an oscilloscope are used to measure the body channel characteristics and wideband transformers are used to eliminate grou ding interference. By analyzing the measurement results, the proper frequency range for intra-body communication is determined.
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Mechanism ofIntra-body communicaion
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Figure I. Circuit model of intra-body conmunication
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Abstract-The fundamental issue of intra-body communication
2011 Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference
Measurement for Channel Characteristics of Intra­ body Communication
Liu Yang, Kuang Jingming, He Zunwen, Xu Xiaobo, Jiang Ling
Fig. � sh?ws a circui� model which interprets the intra-body co�municatIOn mechanIsm [1], [2]. The signal transmission is realIze? through a circuit loop, which composed by the transmItter (TX), the human body, the receiver (RX), and the return path provided by the air and "earth ground". In the electrical model, the human body is modeled as an electrical network [6], and the pair of electrodes on transceivers are modeled as capacitor plates. The near-field couplings are . accomplIshed among the transceivers, human body, and the external environment when the environmental materials are elec�cally isolated from the body. Signals are captured by the �eceIVer by detecting the potential which is generated by the lillpedance between the transmitter electrodes and receiver electrodes [1], [2].