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The lack of healthcare services in outback areas raises the need for efficient remote health monitoring systems. IEEE 802.15.6 standard defines a new wireless communication standard for healthcare systems to mitigate this problem.
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Power consumption is the most crucial dilemma in such system. Due to the low power requirement of Wireless Body Area Network and the importance of its applications, the need of total hardware system implementation arises. We propose a low power architecture of Narrowband Physical Layer transceiver for Wireless Body Area Network based on the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. Our design has the following specifications: (1) reconfigurable architecture for symbol mapper and demapper, (2) Square Root Raised Cosine (SRRC) pulse shaping, and (3) coarse and fine timing synchronization. Our design targets to enhance the spectral and timing synchronization efficiency and overall transceiver performance, with low power consumption.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations. This article also lead to digital VLSI groups contacting me and ultimately to a greater involvement in digital VLSI research.
Awny El-Mohandes
Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: Robust low power NB PHY baseband transceiver for IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN, December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/icm.2015.7437995.
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