Ultra Wideband Wireless Body Area Networks

Wireless Body Area Network and Ultra-Wideband Communication.- MAC Protocols for UWB Based WBAN Applications.- Design and Simulation of a MAC Protocol for WBAN Communication Scenarios.- Hardware Architectures for IR-UWB Based Transceivers.- An Ultra-Wideband Sensor Node Development with Dual-Frequency Band for Medical Signal Monitoring.- System Implementation and Evaluation of an Energy Efficient UWB Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks.- Electromagnetic Effects of IR-UWB Implant Communication.-

Kasun. M. S. Thotahewa received BSc. Hons. Degree in Electronic and Telecommunications from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in July 2008. He has worked as a network operations engineer in one of the major mobile service providers in Sri Lanka. He is currently undertaking his Ph. D. in Monash University, Australia. His research interests include wireless body area networks,ultra-wide band communication, radio frequency electronics and wearable and implantable biomedical electronic applications.

Mehmet Rasit Yuce  received the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC in December 2004. He was a post-doctoral researcher in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2005. He was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia until Jul 2011. In July 2011, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne Australia.  His research interests include wireless implantable telemetry, wireless body area network (WBAN), bio-sensors, MEMs sensors, integrated circuit technology dealing with digital, analog and radio frequency circuit designs for wireless, biomedical, and RF applications. Dr. Yuce has published more than 100 technical articles in the above areas and received a NASA group achievement award in 2007 for developing an SOI transceiver. He received a research excellence award in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle in 2010.  He is a senior member of IEEE. He is an associate editor for IEEE Sensors Journal.

Jean-Michel Redouté received the degree of M. S. in electronics at the University College of Antwerp, in 1998, and the degree of M. Eng. in electrical