Title
On IEEE 802.15.6 UWB symbol length for energy detector receivers' performance with OOK and PPM
Abstract
The IEEE 802.15.6 standard for short range communications in or around human body was published in February 2012. The wireless body area network (WBAN) standard characterizes both medium access control and physical layer (PHY) specifications. The medium access is disregarded here and the focus is on PHY definitions. There are three different PHY options defined in the standard. The interest in this article is in impulse radio ultra wideband (UWB) definitions. In it, the on-off keying (OOK) modulation is stated to be the one used with the mandatory mode. The simulation model has been implemented according to the standard's UWB PHY definitions. The target in this study is to define (close to) an optimal integration interval for an energy detector receiver and an energy threshold required for the OOK detection. For the energy detector receivers, the optimal integration interval is channel dependent and playing an important role in the detection performance. As the data rate increases, the symbol duration is shortened in impulse radio UWB. Depending on the channel conditions, short symbols can be vulnerable for inter-symbol-interference. The used channel models in the simulations are the IEEE 802.15.6 channel model 3 (C M 3) and another one, measured in a real hospital environment at the Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland. The study is continuing our earlier work related to the previously published impulse radio UWB standard, the IEEE 802.15.4-2011, earlier known as the IEEE 802.15.4a.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521694
ISMICT
Keywords
Field
DocType
ieee standards,access protocols,amplitude shift keying,body area networks,body sensor networks,hospitals,intersymbol interference,personal area networks,pulse position modulation,ultra wideband communication,ieee 802.15.4-2011,ieee 802.15.4a,ieee 802.15.6 uwb symbol length,ieee 802.15.6 channel model 3,ieee 802.15.6 standard,ook detection,ook modulation,oulu university hospital,phy options,phy specifications,ppm,uwb phy definitions,uwb definitions,wban standard,channel conditions,channel models,data rate,detection performance,energy detector receiver performance,energy detector receivers,energy threshold,human body,impulse radio uwb standard,impulse radio ultra wideband definitions,inter-symbol-interference,mandatory mode,medium access control and physical layer specifications,on-off keying modulation,optimal integration interval,real hospital environment,short range communications,simulation model,symbol duration,wireless body area network standard,energy detector receiver,ieee 802.15.6,on-off keying,ultra wideband (uwb),wireless communication,bit error rate,modulation,on off keying
IEEE 802.11b-1999,IEEE 802.11,Computer network,Electronic engineering,Physical layer,Body area network,Engineering,PHY,Detector,IEEE 802.11g-2003,IEEE 802.15
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2326-828X E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-5771-5
978-1-4673-5771-5
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Niemela, V.130.47
Matti Hämäläinen2911140.69
Jari H. Iinatti323041.37