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physical input and output instead of as standalone devices, which the ability to interact with the physical world through computation, communication, and control is crucial for future technology developments. Starting in late 2006, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and other United States federal agencies sponsored several workshops on cyber‐physical systems. [19] [20] [21] The NSF has identified cyber‐physical systems as a key area of research. In BANs, link quality can be affected by many factors, including transmission power, packet size, maximum retransmission times, signal modulation scheme, and so on. In this thesis, by using the NIST path loss models, we created a hardware platform is that can be repeated and expanded on by others. We focus on the impact of the choice of modulation scheme on link quality, by calculating packet reception rate (PRR) observed as a function of modulation choice and path distance. RSS‐based body area localization results are also simulated and analyzed in this thesis. 1.2Motivation
This work was motivated by the need for accurate performance evaluation of communication and localization in Body Area Networks. Understanding how the body area channel propagates is very important and challenging. As we know, the IEEE 802.15.6 is focusing on wireless BANs, body area networks. However, to today, there is no widely‐accepted model for wireless propagation in body area network. Various studies have been made upon this problem, but in body measurement and experiment are extremely difficult. 1.3ContributionsoftheThesis
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