Jiang, Zhenzhen 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3306-883X
(2021)
Simultaneous Communication and Power Transfer for WBAN/WPAN Applications.
PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.
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Abstract
Wireless body and personal area networks have become commonplace in recent years in industrial, medical, and consumer-based applications, allowing a collection of devices such as medical sensors to be distributed around a person’s body or within their direct vicinity, to communicate with each other or a network controller to provide convenient personal services. Distributed devices are typically compact and can even be located within the human body. This produces several bottlenecks relating to RF ability and power availability which are addressed here. In this thesis, two antennas are developed. The first is designed for implantable and ingestible applications offering robust wideband performance, covering all the useable licenced operating bands, in the complex material characteristic environment of the human body. The radiation characteristics of the proposed antenna outperform other published work with a smaller size, achieved through the novel application of split-ring resonators. The second is an off-body antenna which concurrently provides appropriately polarised bands for indoor and outdoor localisation and data communication. For its minimised size and wide bandwidth, this antenna also outperforms other antennas for WPAN applications published in the literature. Two methods for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer have been proposed in this work, based on novel theoretical ideas and hardware implementations. A symbol splitting system separates the information- and non-information- carrying components of a signal, using each for data reception and energy harvesting, respectively. The second method makes use of the characteristic of the requisite rectifier in the power conversion from RF to DC, recycling the inevitable third harmonic for data reception. The hardware required to achieve both methodologies utilise couplers and each architecture has been proven feasible through simulation and measurement. They provide comparable performance to other published systems, offering a compact, efficient, and convenient route to simultaneous wireless information and power transfer.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2021 10:23 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2023 01:30 |
| DOI: | 10.17638/03125570 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3125570 |
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