A Survey on RF-based Wireless Techniques in Personal Healthcare

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey on RF-based Wireless Techniques in Personal Healthcare"

by

Miss Yuxi WANG


Abstract:

The worldwide deployment of wireless networks have led to the emergence of 
various wireless applications, among which the wireless supported personal 
healthcare applications play an important role. Traditionally, Radio Frequency 
(RF)- based wireless techniques are used to build the communication links of 
health monitoring systems. However, recent researches try to use RF signals in 
healthcare systems from another aspect. Current RF-assisted healthcare systems 
detect and analyze RF signals changes in order to capture the features for 
health monitoring. As the most commonly used RF-based wireless technique, 
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) have superior performance in assisting 
personal healthcare considering both accuracy and cost. In this survey, we 
review recent advances that uses RF-based wireless techniques to assist 
personal healthcare in three application scenarios: vital-sign monitoring, 
activity recognition, and impairment assistance. We survey state-of-the-art 
works on assisting personal healthcare with an in-depth analysis of the 
corresponding techniques. For each application scenario, we present 
comprehensive comparisons of the systems. Finally, we provide some potential 
topics to point out the future research directions in this area.


Date:			Friday, 31 July 2015

Time:                  	3:30pm - 5:30pm

Venue:                  Room 2132C
                         Lift 19

Committee Members:	Prof. Lionel Ni (Supervisor)
 			Prof. Huamin Qu (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Kai Chen
 			Dr. Lei Chen


**** ALL are Welcome ****