Performance of wireless body area networks for health: ETSI SmartBAN or Bluetooth?
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mucchi, Lorenzo; Jayousi, Sara; Caputo, Stefano; Hamalainen, Matti; Paso, Tuomas; Anzai, Daisuke
- Source
- 2021 XXXIVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS) International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), 2021 XXXIVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the. :1-4 Aug, 2021
- Subject
- Aerospace
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Nuclear Engineering
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Wireless communication
Fading channels
AWGN channels
Bluetooth
Interference
Medical services
Body area networks
- Language
- ISSN
- 2642-4339
This paper deals with a comparative analysis of the performances of two different communications standards for wireless body area networks (WBAN): ETSI SmartBAN and Bluetooth low energy (BLE). The performance comparison is carried out in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel as well as in multipath fading channel. Aggregate interference is also taken into account to show which technology tolerates interference better. Both SmartBAN and BLE are possible wireless solutions to implement services like delivering individual's health-related data. The results show that the SmartBAN can outperform BLE in both AWGN and fading channel, in particular, when interference is present, since SmartBAN can take advantage of BCH and repetition features.