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Channel Characterization and Robust Tracking for Diversity Reception over Time-Variant Off-Body Wireless Communication Channels
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2010, Article number: 978085 (2010)
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In the 2.45 GHz band, indoor wireless off-body data communication by a moving person can be problematic due to time-variant signal fading and the consequent variation in channel parameters. Off-body communication specifically suffers from the combined effects of fading, shadowing, and path loss due to time-variant multipath propagation in combination with shadowing by the human body. Measurements are performed to analyze the autocorrelation, coherence time, and power spectral density for a person equipped with a wearable receive system moving at different speeds for different configurations and antenna positions. Diversity reception with multiple textile antennas integrated in the clothing provides a means of improving the reliability of the link. For the dynamic channel estimation, a scheme using hard decision feedback after MRC with adaptive low-pass filtering is demonstrated to be successful in providing robust data detection for long data bursts, in the presence of dramatic channel variation.
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Van Torre, P., Vallozzi, L., Rogier, H. et al. Channel Characterization and Robust Tracking for Diversity Reception over Time-Variant Off-Body Wireless Communication Channels. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2010, 978085 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/978085
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Keywords
- Power Spectral Density
- Channel Estimation
- Path Loss
- Coherence Time
- Dynamic Channel