Experimental evaluation of MIMO transmission on between human bodies communication

Abstract

In this paper, we propose multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transmission using human bodies. The proposed scheme is experimentally evaluated using test subjects, whose bodies are located at different positions. A high channel capacity was achieved by using MIMO transmission. The channel capacity obtained for 2 × 2 MIMO in body-to-body communication is approximately 1.6 times higher than that obtained when using single-input single-output transmission. The experimental results indicate the success of the proposed method in increasing channel capacity using MIMO. The presented research is relatively unique, and the results would therefore be a valuable contribution to this field of research. , vol. 35, no. 3-4, pp. 609-617, 1996. DOI:10.1147/sj.353. 0609 [2] M. Sasaki and K. Ochiai, "Prsonal and demonstration of intrabody communication with a sensitive electro-opotic sensor," IEEE Trans.

Analysis on frequency-dependency of conductive signal transmission channel for wearable devices

“…Wearable wireless communication systems that can be applied to sensor networks are not only radio frequency (RF) communication systems used in wireless communications, but also communication systems that transmit and receive electric signals through human skin [11,12,13,14]. The U-healthcare device is attached or inserted into the human body, so that the human body communication (HBC) method using the human body as a channel is emerging as a communication method suitable for formation of a body area network.…”