Cooperative Diversity based WBAN by using STBC

Abstract

This paper is focused towards a cooperative diversity-based wireless body area network (WBAN) by using Alamouti?s space-time block code (STBC) with rotational precoding scheme along with Max-Min and Harmonic Mean relay selection procedure. The considered WBAN model is served for healthcare service in order to mitigate the undesired effects of WBAN due to high path loss and fading as well as to keep a low transmit power while meeting to the desired WBAN quality of services.