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Performance analysis on equal gain combining diversity receiver for implant body area networks

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This paper evaluates the performance of an equal gain combining (EGC) diversity receiver for implant body area networks (BANs) at 400 MHz medical implant communication service (MICS) band. To begin with, in order to analyze the performance of the EGC diversity receiver, we perform finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations on implant BAN propagation with a numerical human model, and investigate the propagation characteristics of implant BAN signals. Then, this paper presents an EGC diversity system for implant BANs which can improve the communication performance and evaluates the bit error rate (BER) performance by theoretical analysis. In the theoretical analysis, it is difficult to analytically derive the probability density function (pdf) on the combined signal-to-noise power ratio (SNR) at the EGC receiver output. Therefore, we introduce two approximation methods such as the moment generating function (MGF) method and the curve fitting method. The paper demonstrates that the performances by the theoretical analyses with the two approximation methods are almost corresponding to those by the computer simulations.

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      ISABEL '11: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies
      October 2011
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