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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 519792, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/519792
Link Characteristics Measuring in 2.4 GHz Body Area Sensor Networks
1School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
2School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, China
3Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Received 16 July 2012; Accepted 26 September 2012
Academic Editor: Yingshu Li
Copyright © 2012 Guodong Sun et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
With the increasing demands on the remote healthcare and the rich human-machine interacting, body area sensor network (BASN) has been attracting more and more attention. In practice, understanding the link performance and its dynamics in the emerging BASN applications is very important to design reliable, real-time, and energy-efficient protocols. In this paper we study the link characteristics of body area sensor network (BASN) through extensive experiments with very realistic configurations. We evaluate the packet reception ratio, RSSI, LQI, and movement intensity of body under indoor and outdoor environments, all of which can provide direct insights to practical account.