Raptor Code for Energy-Efficient Wireless Body Area Network Data Transmission
Abstract: Wireless Body Area
Network (WBAN) is a device developed mainly for the purpose of monitoring the
medical condition of a human. WBAN is worn on the surface or in the human body,
and it contains a wireless communication device. A WBAN device is required to
be small-sized, with limited power and high data reliability. The data
reliability can be obtained by using a carefully designed channel coding scheme
so that the energy consumed can be maintained at a low level. In this paper,
data transmission inRayleigh, Rician, and Nakagami-m fading channels using
Raptor and BCH codes is simulated. Simulation results show that Raptor-coded
data transmission consumes lower energy compared to BCH-coded transmission for
various fading channels if the transmission distance exceeds 10 meters.
Therefore, Raptor code is a good candidate for the channel coding scheme for
WBAN.
Author: Lydia Sari, Antonius
Aditya
Journal Code: jptkomputergg150032
