Analysis of Measurement Techniques Used in Channel Characterization of UWB Wireless Body Area Networks

Bharat Waman Patil, Ashwini S. Kunte

2025

Abstract

The Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) has evolved over the past two decades, making a significant impact on the communication sector, specifically the Internet of Things (IoT) domain, giving new directions to health monitoring, wellness and assisted living, entertainment, and many more. WBANs are networks of interconnected devices which are worn, implanted, swallowed, or embedded i.e., in, on and around human body. As a propagation medium, the human body is complex to study because of its partially conductive nature and heterogeneous dielectric properties, which makes it a major challenge to characterize its behavior as a communication channel in the WBAN environment. Further body movements, curvatures and characteristics of the surrounding environment add further to its complexity. In the last two decades, different properties of communication channels for radio links used in WBAN have been studied by researchers. The major challenge for the WBAN is modelling the propagation channels of the radio links for the development of more accurate and efficient systems. In this research, measurement is a key issue as it helps to quantify the physical properties of available human body communication channels. Authors have used different methods like experimentation, numerical techniques and statistical methods for characterizing and evaluation of on and off-human body radio channels. In this paper, various measurement techniques used by the authors over the last two decades for characterizing Human Body Channels have been analyzed and discussed their evolution along with the issues, challenges and future research trends.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Patil B. and Kunte A. (2025). Analysis of Measurement Techniques Used in Channel Characterization of UWB Wireless Body Area Networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology - Volume 3: INCOFT; ISBN 978-989-758-763-4, SciTePress, pages 795-803. DOI: 10.5220/0013733000004664

in Bibtex Style

@conference{incoft25,
author={Bharat Waman Patil and Ashwini Kunte},
title={Analysis of Measurement Techniques Used in Channel Characterization of UWB Wireless Body Area Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology - Volume 3: INCOFT},
year={2025},
pages={795-803},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013733000004664},
isbn={978-989-758-763-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology - Volume 3: INCOFT
TI - Analysis of Measurement Techniques Used in Channel Characterization of UWB Wireless Body Area Networks
SN - 978-989-758-763-4
AU - Patil B.
AU - Kunte A.
PY - 2025
SP - 795
EP - 803
DO - 10.5220/0013733000004664
PB - SciTePress