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This chapter addresses the challenges and design strategies in body area network (BAN) transceivers. Stringent energy constraint in BAN application means the transceiver circuit must operate in energy-efficient manner. Yet the human body absorbing majority of radio frequency (RF) energy makes the RF-based transceivers unattractive for BAN applications. In this chapter, we discuss an alternative solution which utilizes the human body itself as a communication medium namely the body-coupled communication (BCC).
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The author acknowledges Dr. Wala Saadeh and Mr. Yonatan Kifle for their research, design, and implementation of the BCC transceivers introduced in this chapter. He also thanks Mr. Owais Talaat Waheed for his technical help with the LaTeX typesetting of this chapter.
This work has been supported by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) under the Abu Dhabi SRC Center of Excellence on Energy-Efficient Electronic Systems (\(ACE^{4}S\)), Contract 2013 HJ2440, with funding from the Mubadala Development Company, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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Yoo, J. (2019). Energy-Efficient Body Area Network Transceiver Using Body-Coupled Communication. In: Elfadel, I., Ismail, M. (eds) The IoT Physical Layer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93100-5_8
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