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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Année : 2015

Optical Wireless Links as an Alternative to Radio-Frequency for Medical Body Area Networks

Ludovic Chevalier
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Stéphanie Sahuguede
Anne Julien-Vergonjanne

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It is now established that optical wireless communications (OWC) technology is a promising alternative or a complement to radio-frequencies for indoor transmissions. Considering that using OWC permits the reduction of electromagnetic pollution in human environment, this technology can be also a good candidate for wireless body area networks (WBANs) in particular for medical applications such as health monitoring. In this paper, we investigate the use of on-body OWC for mobile medical WBAN. Based on transmission scheme exploiting diffuse optical reflections over the patient environment, we investigate a star BAN topology using spreading codes for multiple access. We have developed a theoretical analysis to determine the performance of such network considering that the patient is moving in the room. The achievable quality of service for a typical health monitoring application is reported and discussed regarding the performance required by medical applications.
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hal-01257512 , version 1 (17-01-2016)

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Ludovic Chevalier, Stéphanie Sahuguede, Anne Julien-Vergonjanne. Optical Wireless Links as an Alternative to Radio-Frequency for Medical Body Area Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2015, 33 (9), pp.2002-2010. ⟨10.1109/JSAC.2015.2432527⟩. ⟨hal-01257512⟩
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