title: Low power and self-reconfigurable WBAN controller for continuous bio-signal monitoring system.
abstract: The WBAN controller with Branched Bus (BB) topology and Continuous Data Transmission (CDT) protocol with low power consumption and self-reconfigurability is proposed for wearable healthcare applications. The BB topology and CDT protocol is a combination of conventional Bus and Star topology and a variation from TDMA protocol, respectively, while they are able to compensate for the electrical fault in bio-signal monitoring system caused by the electrode deformation. Thanks to them, the proposed WBAN controller enables more reliable operation in continuous bio-signal monitoring applications such as sleep monitoring.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 305-701 Daejeon, Korea. seulki.lee@imec-nl.nl
authors.forename: Seulki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hoi-Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Yoo
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003201:Computers; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004566:Electrodes; D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000295:instrumentation; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D059015:Wireless Technology