TY - GEN
T1 - A low-power body-channel communication system for binaural hearing aids
AU - Chen, Jou Ling
AU - Sun, Jhih Cing
AU - Shen, Yi Hung
AU - Sang, Tzu-Hsien
AU - Chang, Tian-Sheuan
AU - Jou, Shyh-Jye
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - In modern binaural hearing aids, the realization of many advanced functions depends on reliable exchange of information for both sides. Commercially available hearing aids often use RF technologies to meet the communication needs, despite the relatively high power consumption associated with them. In a series of two papers, we describe a low-power communication system utilizing skin conductance designed for binaural hearing aids. Due to the facts that skin contact naturally happens in binaural hearing aids and baseband modulation techniques with low power consumption can be used in transmission over skin, the skin communication system is found to be perfectly suited for the needs of binaural hearing aids. In this paper of the series, system-level design issues are discussed and design specifics of the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer are given, while in the sister paper, low power circuit design and physical-layer algorithms are detailed.
AB - In modern binaural hearing aids, the realization of many advanced functions depends on reliable exchange of information for both sides. Commercially available hearing aids often use RF technologies to meet the communication needs, despite the relatively high power consumption associated with them. In a series of two papers, we describe a low-power communication system utilizing skin conductance designed for binaural hearing aids. Due to the facts that skin contact naturally happens in binaural hearing aids and baseband modulation techniques with low power consumption can be used in transmission over skin, the skin communication system is found to be perfectly suited for the needs of binaural hearing aids. In this paper of the series, system-level design issues are discussed and design specifics of the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer are given, while in the sister paper, low power circuit design and physical-layer algorithms are detailed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84874142542&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/BioCAS.2012.6418486
DO - 10.1109/BioCAS.2012.6418486
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874142542
SN - 9781467322935
T3 - 2012 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference: Intelligent Biomedical Electronics and Systems for Better Life and Better Environment, BioCAS 2012 - Conference Publications
SP - 100
EP - 103
BT - 2012 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference
T2 - 2012 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference: Intelligent Biomedical Electronics and Systems for Better Life and Better Environment, BioCAS 2012
Y2 - 28 November 2012 through 30 November 2012
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