A Five-Tissue-Layer Human Body Communication Circuit Model Tunable to Individual Characteristics

作者：Mao, Jingna; Yang, Huazhong; Lian, Yong; Zhao, Bo^*

来源：IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2018, 12(2): 303-312.

DOI：10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2798410

• Body tissue layer
• channel model
• human body communication (HBC)
• IEEE 802.15.6
• path loss
• wireless body area network (WBAN)

Human body communication (HBC) has several advantages over traditional wireless communications due to the high conductivity of human body. Anaccurate body channelmodel plays a vital role in optimizing the performance and power of HBC transceivers. In this paper, we present a body channel model with three distinct features. First, it takes into account all five body tissue layers resulting better accuracy; second, it adapts to different individuals with the proposed layer thickness estimation technique; third, it counts in the variation of backward coupling capacitance versus different postures. These new features significantly improve the model accuracy. Measurement results show that the proposed model achieves a maximum error of 2.21% in path loss for different human subjects.

• 出版日期2018-4
• 单位清华大学; 浙江大学