Measuring upper limb movement to analyze intra-body communication channel attenuation characteristics
Shuang Zhang1,2,3,4,1, Yu-Ping Qin1,2,1, Jiang-Ming Kuang1,2
1College of Computer Science, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, Sichuan, China.
Background:
This experiment was designed to study the respective effects of the closed-state human palm and dynamic arm bending on intra-body communication channel attenuation.
Methods:
We selected the right upper arm of a healthy adult male as the experimental object to measure channel attenuation variation in a closed or open palm, and when the arm was bent, so as to analyze channel characteristics.
Conclusions:
The experiment showed that, in a quasi-static stable system, the effects of a closed palm on channel attenuation were negligibly minimal. In contrast, the physiological signal of the living body significantly interfered with the channel in the low-frequency mode. In the dynamic arm-bending experiment, we found that the attenuation variation range corresponds to the intersection angle (90∘⩽θ⩽ 180∘) of the upper arm and forearm; these results provide the basis for the establishment of a theoretical model.
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