A Survey on Recent Research Trends Towards Near Field Body Coupled Communication

Abstract: In the era of Internet of Things (IoT) and accurate sensor nodes, the recent advancements of information and communication technologies enables deployment of human body as communication channel. Therefore the present communication scenario enables the dynamic and continuous data transmission by configuring small transceiver near to human body. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) are one of the special kinds of networks which have been visualized to be a reality in future for remote data transceiving system referring the concept of Near Field Body Coupled Communication System (NFBCC). The concept of implementing the congruent and ubiquitous systems needs proper synchronization in between various heterogeneous nodes such as Near Field Coupling Communication transceiver network. The novel information transmission method to transmit the data using human body as communication channel is defined in the process called Intra Body Communication (IBC). The proposed study provides an overview of the state of art techniques towards reliable communication strategies in NFBCC. The significant contribution of the proposed study is highlighted over research gap which illustrates the existing research issues associated with the NFCC communication systems. This review presents brief overview of current research in hardware and software systems for NFBCC. We lead off this discussion by examining different research trends.

Keywords: component: Wireless Body Area Networks, Near field Body Coupled Communication, Intra Body Communication.