High SNR analysis of inter-body interference in Body Area Networks

Wireless Body Area Networks (BANs) have drawn significant attention of research community all over the world due to their applications in healthcare. This paper adopts the cluster based approach to analytically model the implications of inter-body interference in BANs. To be specific, we derive exact closed-form expression for outage probability for co-channel interference under Rayleigh and Rician fading. We consider two cases, where in first case channel between sensors and cluster head is Rice distributed and channel between main and interfering cluster head is Rayleigh distributed. In second case, channel between sensors and cluster head is Rayleigh distributed and channel between main and interfering cluster head is Rice distributed. We also evaluate the significance of Rician-K factor for both cases. Extensive simulations are performed to validate our findings which clearly show the effect of inter-body interference on the performance of BANs.