Ultra Wideband Wireless Body Area Networks

• Main Authors: Thotahewa, Kasun Maduranga Silva (Author), Redouté, Jean-Michel (Author), Yuce, Mehmet Rasit (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Biomedical engineering.; Circuits and Systems.; Biomedical Engineering.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

This book explores the design of ultra wideband (UWB) technology for wireless body-area networks (WBAN).  The authors describe a novel implementation of WBAN sensor nodes that use UWB for data transmission and narrow band for data reception, enabling low power sensor nodes, with high data rate capab...