TY - GEN
T1 - Future applications of body area communications
AU - Shimamoto, Shigeru
AU - Alsehab, Adbullah M.
AU - Kobayashi, Nao
AU - Dovchinbazar, Dagvadorj
AU - Ruiz, Jordi Augud
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - Ubiquitous communication seems to be in practical use these days. However we are still looking for a new promising communication infrastructure for personal area network. In this paper, we show some of the body area communication characteristics and applications for the future personal area application. We have investigated both of the Intra-Body communication and Inter-Body communication in terms of propagation and application respectively. Various kinds of wearable devices have been developed for many purposes. Some of the medical applications require very small size of the transmission device in order to have enough portability and long life time. Body area communication seems to give us the answer such requirement.
AB - Ubiquitous communication seems to be in practical use these days. However we are still looking for a new promising communication infrastructure for personal area network. In this paper, we show some of the body area communication characteristics and applications for the future personal area application. We have investigated both of the Intra-Body communication and Inter-Body communication in terms of propagation and application respectively. Various kinds of wearable devices have been developed for many purposes. Some of the medical applications require very small size of the transmission device in order to have enough portability and long life time. Body area communication seems to give us the answer such requirement.
KW - Body area network
KW - Healthcare
KW - Inter-body communication
KW - Intra-body communication
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U2 - 10.1109/ICICS.2007.4449893
DO - 10.1109/ICICS.2007.4449893
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50449087932
SN - 1424409837
SN - 9781424409839
T3 - 2007 6th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, ICICS
BT - 2007 6th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, ICICS
T2 - 2007 6th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, ICICS
Y2 - 10 December 2007 through 13 December 2007
ER -