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Implementation of iterative error detection and correction for BAN transceiver systems

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The rapid development of wireless communication technology has facilitated internal and external applications for the human body, leading to the development of body area networks (BANs). In recent years, populations have rapidly aged. Thus, methods for integrating and wireless communication and medical technologies are becoming an increasingly important trend to the application of health care for elderly people. Currently, equipment adopted by people that are considered exclusive wireless communication systems includes watches, sensors, mobile phones, and microchip implants. Wireless networks are typically affected by environmental factors and noise interferences. This weakens transmission signals and causes burst errors, which result in improper data recovery at the receiver end. Therefore, this study proposes a burst error-correcting cyclic encoder and decoder with an expanded iteration decoding (EID) circuit structure. This encoder and decoder are suitable for channels with random and burst errors. The TSMC 0.18 μm process was adopted to develop a (26,16) encoder and decoder chip with an area of 1.048 × 1.048 mm2. The analytical results indicate that a coding gain of 2.4 dB was achieved when the decoder bit error rate (BER) was 10–4, providing a significantly superior random and burst error correction capability.

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The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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This research was supported in part the ministry of science and technology in Taiwan under the grant numbers MOST 109-2637-E-150-002 and MOST 110-2637-E-150-011. The authors would like to thank the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute for the technical support.

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Lin, KH., Chen, FC. Implementation of iterative error detection and correction for BAN transceiver systems. Wireless Netw 29, 1771–1786 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-022-03222-3

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