Energy efficient capacitive body channel access schemes for internet of bodies

Alamoudi, Abeer, Celik, Abdulkadir and Eltawil, Ahmed M. (2021) Energy efficient capacitive body channel access schemes for internet of bodies. In IEEE GLOBECOM. (doi:10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685810).

Abstract

The Internet of bodies is a network of wearable, ingestible, injectable, and implantable smart objects located in, on, and around the body. Although radio frequency (RF) systems are considered the default choice for implementing on-body communications, which need to be localized in the vicinity of the human body (typically < 5 cm), highly radiative RF propagations unnecessarily extend several meters beyond the human body. This intuitively degrades energy efficiency, leads to interference and co-existence issues, and exposes sensitive personal data to security threats. As an alternative, the capacitive body channel communication (BCC) couples the signal (between 10 kHz-100 MHz) to the human body, which is more conductive than air. Hence, BCC provides a lower propagation loss, better physical layer security, and nJ/bit to pJ/bit energy efficiency. Accordingly, this paper investigates orthogonal and non-orthogonal capacitive body channel access schemes for ultra-low-power IoB nodes. We present the optimal uplink and downlink power allocations in closed-form, which deliver better fairness and network lifetime than benchmark numerical solvers. For a given bandwidth and data rate requirement, we also derive the maximum affordable number of IoB nodes for both directions of orthogonal and non-orthogonal schemes.

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Author: Abdulkadir Celik

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