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Intra-Body Communication (IBC), which modulates ionic currents over the human body as the communication medium, offers a low power and reliable signal transmission method for information exchange across the body. This paper first briefly reviews the quasi-static electromagnetic (EM) field modeling for a galvanic-type IBC human limb operating below 1 MHz and obtains the corresponding transfer function with correction factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE) technique. Then, the IBC channel characteristics are studied through the comparison between theoretical calculations via this transfer function and experimental measurements in both frequency domain and time domain. High pass characteristics are obtained in the channel gain analysis versus different transmission distances. In addition, harmonic distortions are analyzed in both baseband and passband transmissions for square input waves. The experimental results are consistent with the calculation results from the transfer function with correction factor. Furthermore, we also explore both theoretical and simulation results for the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of several common modulation schemes in the IBC system with a carrier frequency of 500 kHz. It is found that the theoretical results are in good agreement with the simulation results.
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SENSORS
ISSN: 1424-8220
Year: 2012
Issue: 12
Volume: 12
Page: 16433-16450
1 . 9 5 3
JCR@2012
3 . 4 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: CHEMISTRY;
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:2
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WoS CC Cited Count: 36
SCOPUS Cited Count: 40
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 2
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