Design and Implementation of a Circuit for Mesh Networks with Application in Body Area Networks

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Fardin Derogarian (Author) FEUP; João Canas Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Vítor M. Grade Tavares (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2012, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, September 5-8, 2012

Pages: 896-901

15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2012

Cesme, Izmir, 5 September 2012 through 8 September 2012

Indexing

Scopus - 4 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-008-8WB

DOI: 10.1109/dsd.2012.41

Abstract (EN): This paper presents a network circuit for wearable low-power BAN (Body Area Networks) applications, geared towards mesh network topologies with conductive yarns as transmission channels. The design and implementation of the physical and MAC layers is described. The resulting circuit sends and receives data simultaneously, and experimental results indicate that the proposed system works with variable data rates, up to a maximum of 9+9 Mbps. All reported measurements were collected from working FPGA-based prototypes, and the performance achieved shows that the circuit is suitable for use in reliable high-speed low-power BAN applications. © 2012 IEEE.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific