A Review on Human Body Communication: Signal Propagation Model, Communication Performance, and Experimental Issues

Table 5

Communication performance of HBC system.

Literature (authors, year)	TX power	Channel capacity	Data rate	TX distance	Modulation method
Capacitive coupling HBC
Zimmerman [17], 1995	—	417 kbps	2.4 kbps	—	OOK
Post et al. [66], 1997	20 dBm	50 kbps	9.6 kbps	200 cm	FSK
Matsushita et al. [67], 2000	—	—	9.6 kbps	—	FSK
Partridge et al. [68], 2001	—	—	38.4 kbps	200 cm	FSK
Shinagawa et al. [80], 2004	—	—	10 Mbps	150 cm	—
Song et al. [73], 2006	—	—	2 Mbps	—	Wideband
Zhu et al. [64], 2009	−14 dBm	—	10 Mbps	15 cm	QPSK
Cho et al. [75], 2009	−5 dBm	—	10 Mbps	120 cm	Wideband
Zhang et al. [62], 2010	—	—	0.110 Mbps	10~150 cm	BPSK
Nie et al. [70], 2012	−15~5 dBm	—	5 Mbps	10~50 cm	OOK
Hyoung et al. [78], 2012	—	—	2 Mbps	170 cm	Wideband
Cho et al. [71], 2014	1.4 dBm (or 1.4 mW)	—	164 kbps~1.313 Mbps	—	BPSK
Cho et al. [72], 2015	−16.7 dBm (or 21 μW)	—	100 kbps	—	OOK
Chung et al. [79], 2016	—	—	1 Mbps~40 Mbps	—	Wideband
Galvanic coupling HBC
Handa et al. [38], 1997	−21 dBm	—	0.9 kbps	40 cm	PWM
Hachisuka et al. [40], 2003	−10 dBm	—	9.6 kbps	28 cm	FSK
Wegmueller et al. [43], 2005	−3 dBm	—	255 kbps	10~15 cm	BPSK
Ruiz and Shimamoto [65], 2006	15 dBm	—	2 Mbps	20 cm	QPSK
Wegmueller [41], 2007	−6 dBm	1.23 Mbps	64 kbps	10~25 cm	QPSK
Lin et al. [60], 2011	−30~−4 dBm	—	2 Mbps	—	OOK
Li et al. [92], 2013	−5 dBm	—	200 kbps	6 cm	QPSK