A 2Mbps Human Body Communication Transceiver Based on Body Antenna Effect

This paper presents a human body communication(HBC)transceiver for wireless body network applications.The transceiver employs on frequency shift keying(FSK)modulation and op-erates in 40 MHz-60 MHz which is the resonant frequency of the human body as an antenna.It achieves high performance and stability through establish passive microstrip line and via models and active device-models.The proposed transceiver is designed and fabricated by FR4 printed cir-cuit board(PCB)process,the transceiver has the ability of configurable data rate up to 2 Mbps and it achieves-86 dBm receiving sensitivity at 2 Mbps data rate.Meanwhile,the transceiver out-put power dynamics range is 34 dB.Furthermore,with a visual interaction interface,the transceiv-er can be agility use in a variety of scenarios.Its measurements are verified on human body.The result shows that the transceiver has ability to send data from person to person by relying on hu-man body antenna radiation.The transceiver shows great prospect in wireless body area networks(WBAN)for telemedicine and emergency communication.

A Novel Flexible Antenna at Very High Frequency Band for On-Body Applications

This paper proposes a novel flexible antenna design operating at very high frequency(VHF)band for on-body applications such as human body communication(HBC).The antenna consists of back-to-back E-shaped fractal and complimentary structures designed over a thin flex-ible substrate.The overall design working on the principle of fractal geometries and capacitive coupling is highly beneficial to achieve better antenna characteristics even at low frequencies around 35 MHz-45 MHz that are being used for HBC application.The proposed antenna obtained a large bandwidth of around 10.0 MHz in air and a bandwidth of around 8.0 MHz during on-body opera-tion.The antenna has been tested in three different scenarios viz.air,on-body single antenna and on-body communication using two antennas.The insertion loss is reduced to a minimum in all three scenarios,which is quite beneficial for better signal transmission.The size miniaturization with high flexibility in such low frequencies has also been achieved in the paper that makes the proposed design suitable for human body communication applications.

人体通信频段体内至体表信道特性分析与建模

为探究人体通信(HBC)频段体内无线通信系统的传输特性,该文对解剖学数值人体模型和多层异质几何人体模型的体内至体表信道特性进行电磁仿真分析,首次建立了人体通信频段内10~50 MHz体内至体表路径损耗模型,并通过生物液态仿体内测量验证了电磁仿真和路径损耗模型的有效性。首先,结合时域有限积分法和数值人体模型计算10~50 MHz人体心脏节点至体表各节点的平均路径损耗,分析对比解剖学数值人体模型和多层异质人体模型的路径损耗、阴影衰落和电磁场分布特性。其次,基于表面波传播机理,提出一个带有线性修正项的对数路径损耗模型,最后建立完整的10~50 MHz体内至体表植入式人体信道模型。仿真分析和实验结果表明,该文提出的带有线性修正项的路径损耗模型可以更准确地描述此频段体内至体表路径损耗特性,采用解剖学数值人体模型进行此频段信道建模与特性研究可以有效提高植入式信道模型的可靠性。