Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada.
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2018 Dec 19;18(12):4494. doi: 10.3390/s18124494.
In recent years, the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) concept has attracted significant academic and industrial attention. WBAN specifies a network dedicated to collecting personal biomedical data from advanced sensors that are then used for health and lifestyle purposes. In 2012, the 802.15.6 WBAN standard was released by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which regulates and specifies the configurations of WBAN. Compared to the prevailing wireless communication technologies such as Bluetooth and ZigBee, the WBAN standard has the advantages of ultra-low power consumption, high reliability, and high-security protection while transmitting sensitive personal data. Based on the standard specification, several implementations have been published. However, in terms of evaluation, different designs were implemented in proprietary evaluation environments, which may lead to unfair comparison. In this paper, a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) evaluation platform for WBAN systems is proposed to evaluate the RF channel specified in the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. A narrowband communication protocol demonstration with a security scheme in WBAN has been performed to successfully validate the design in the proposed evaluation platform.
近年来，无线体域网（WBAN）的概念引起了学术界和工业界的广泛关注。WBAN 指定了一个网络，专门从先进的传感器中收集个人生物医学数据，然后用于健康和生活方式的目的。2012 年，电气和电子工程师协会（IEEE）发布了 802.15.6WBAN 标准，该标准规定并指定了 WBAN 的配置。与流行的无线通信技术（如蓝牙和 ZigBee）相比，WBAN 标准在传输敏感个人数据时具有超低功耗、高可靠性和高安全性保护的优势。根据标准规范，已经发布了几个实现。然而，在评估方面，不同的设计是在专有的评估环境中实现的，这可能导致不公平的比较。在本文中，提出了一种用于 WBAN 系统的软件定义无线电（SDR）评估平台，以评估 IEEE 802.15.6 标准中指定的射频信道。已经在 WBAN 中演示了具有安全方案的窄带通信协议，成功验证了所提出评估平台中的设计。
