Determining Threshold Distance Providing Less Interference for Wireless Medical Implant Communication Systems in Coexisting Environments under Shadow Fading Conditions

Year 2017, Volume: 21 Issue: 3, 718 - 723, 13.08.2017

Selman Kulaç

Abstract

Important interference problems will be able to be encountered especially close areas to the hospitals where wireless implantable medical systems' communication traffic occurs heavily in near future. It is possible that these interferences could cause wireless implant devices to malfunction and harmful effects on patients. In this study, it is proposed to determine threshold distance in order to get less interference for wireless implantable medical systems under shadow fading conditions where MICS band and MetAids band users coexist intensely simultaneously. In this method, threshold power according to the \cite{FCC} is pulled down by adding extra distance margin in order to minimize the interference effects to the MICS systems using confidence interval calculations. Because received signal strength just below the monitoring threshold power according to the \cite{FCC} brings about much more interferences for the MICS systems even if listen-before-talk technique is applied.

Keywords

Link budget calculations, MetAids band; MICS band; Monitoring threshold power; Shadow fading conditions; Wireless IMD communications

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