Title
Fast selection of time-interleaved samples for wireless healthcare monitoring with pulse radar
Abstract
In this paper, we exploit using ultra-wide band(UWB) pulse radar for non-contact healthcare monitoring such as respiration or heartbeats rates. The transmitter sends periodic Gaussian pulses towards the person under monitoring. The pulses arrive at the person and reflect back to the receiver. The receiver samples the reflected signal in RF domain directly by time-interleaved sampling. The 16 time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (ADC) lead to equivalent sampling rate of 20-GSamples/s. The respiration and heartbeats information are captured in the reflected signal and processed by the system. We have developed a successive interference cancelation algorithm at the receiver to post-process the signals and extract the respiration rate and the heartbeats rate successively. Furthermore, instead of taking all the received samples, a low complexity scheme is developed to select from the 16 interleaved ADC subchannels. We find that only a subset of the 16 interleaved samples are sufficient to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio. Also,the proposed scheme does not require prior knowledge of the pulse waveform. The performance evaluation based on the mean square error (MSE) of estimated heartbeats rate is also presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/BioCAS.2012.6418473
Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
analogue-digital conversion,biomedical electronics,cardiology,feature extraction,health care,medical signal processing,patient monitoring,pneumodynamics,radar applications,radar interference,radar signal processing,radar transmitters,wireless sensor networks,rf domain,analog-to-digital converters,heartbeat rates,performance evaluation,periodic gaussian pulses,receiver samples,respiration rates,signal extraction,successive interference cancelation algorithm,time-interleaved sampling,ultrawide band pulse radar,wireless healthcare monitoring
Conference
978-1-4673-2292-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
chenghao hong100.34
huanchung wu200.34
husan shen300.68
husan shen400.68
Ta-Shun Chu59616.55
Jen-Ming Wu66219.81