{"title":"On the Selection of Optimum Threshold Bound of Body Surface to External Communication in Body Area Network","authors":"S. Kaur, J. Malhotra","doi":"10.4018/IJWNBT.2018010102","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the optimum threshold bounds for the signal travelling through a body surfacetoexternalnodesofabodyareanetwork.Anultra-widebandsystemrangingfrom3.1-10.6 GHzisusedfortheobservationsofthesignaltransmittingthroughdifferentbodydirectionsusing NICT’sstatisticalmodel.Throughsimulative investigation, the linkperformance isevaluatedby calculatingoutageprobabilityusingsub-optimumRakereceivers,whicharebasedoneitherpartial combining(P-Rake)orselectivecombining(S-Rake).TheoptimumnumbersofRaketapsarealso identified.Theobtainedresultsgiveanassessmenttobetterunderstandtheeffectofbodydirection andRakestructureontheselectionofoptimumthresholdboundsforachannelmodelCM4ofbody areacommunication. KEyWORdS Body Area Networks (BAN), Channel Model, Outage Probability, Rake Receiver, Ultra Wideband System (UWB)","PeriodicalId":422249,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Wirel. Networks Broadband Technol.","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. Wirel. Networks Broadband Technol.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJWNBT.2018010102","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}