Performance of amplify forward and decode forward cooperative strategies for body surface communications in UWB Body Area Networks

Body area networks BAN are being developed for telemonitoring of patients. Ultra wideband UWB is the most preferred choice for the physical layer of the BAN as it provides high data rate at low power consumption along with a simple transceiver structure. But because of high fading characteristics of the human body channel, the range of UWB will be limited, and a reliable communication cannot be guaranteed. In that case, cooperative communications may be applied to BAN for improving system performance and link quality.

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