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Characterization of the Body-to-Body Propagation Channel for Subjects during Sports Activities

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dc.creator Mohamed, Marshed
dc.creator Cheffena, Michael
dc.creator Moldsvor, Arild
dc.date 2020-01-08T10:58:37Z
dc.date 2020-01-08T10:58:37Z
dc.date 2018-02-18
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-03T13:17:01Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-03T13:17:01Z
dc.identifier M. Mohamed, M. Cheffena, and A. Moldsvor, “Characterization of the body-to-bodypropagation channel for subjects during sports activities,”Sensors, vol. 18, no. 2, p.620, 2018
dc.identifier 1424-8220
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5354
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/s18020620
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5354
dc.description Body-to-body wireless networks (BBWNs) have great potential to find applications in team sports activities among others. However, successful design of such systems requires great understanding of the communication channel as the movement of the body components causes time-varying shadowing and fading effects. In this study, we present results of the measurement campaign of BBWN during running and cycling activities. Among others, the results indicated the presence of good and bad states with each state following a specific distribution for the considered propagation scenarios. This motivated the development of two-state semi-Markov model, for simulation of the communication channels. The simulation model was validated using the available measurement data in terms of first and second order statistics and have shown good agreement. The first order statistics obtained from the simulation model as well as the measured results were then used to analyze the performance of the BBWNs channels under running and cycling activities in terms of capacity and outage probability. Cycling channels showed better performance than running, having higher channel capacity and lower outage probability, regardless of the speed of the subjects involved in the measurement campaign.
dc.language en
dc.publisher IEEE
dc.relation Sensors;18(2), 620
dc.subject body area networks; body-to-body communication; personal communication networks; radio propagation; time-varying channels; performance analysis
dc.title Characterization of the Body-to-Body Propagation Channel for Subjects during Sports Activities
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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