Publications in Body Area Networks

Book chapter/Journal/Thesis:

• K. Pahlavan, G. Bao, Y. Ye, S. Makarov, U. Khan, P. Swar, D. Cave, A. Karellas, P. Krishnamurthy, K. Sayrafian , “RF Localization for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy”, Invited paper International Journal of Wireless Information Networks,Springer, on line at October 14, 2012
• Jie He, Kaveh Pahlavan, Shen Li and Qin Wang , "A Testbed for Evaluation of the Effects of Multipath on Performance of TOA-based Indoor Geolocation", IEEE Trans on Instrumentation and Measurements, Vol.62 , Issue: 8, pp. 2237 - 2247 , 2013.
• Yunxing Ye, Pranay Swar and Kaveh Pahlavan, "Accuracy of RSS-Based RF Localization in Multi-Capsule Endoscopy" invited paper, Wireless Health special issue based on best papers presented at IEEE PIMRC 2011, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Springer Vol 19, No 3, August 2012, (in the press).
• R. Fu, Y. Ye, N. Yang, K. Pahlavan, "Characteristic and Modeling of Human Body Motions for Body Area Network Applications", invited paper, Wireless Health special issue based on best papers presented at IEEE PIMRC’11, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Springer Vol 19, No 3, August 2012, (in the press).
• S.N. Makarov, G. Noetscher, and L. C. Kempel, "Directional In-Quadrature Orthogonal-Coil Antenna and an Array Thereof for Localization Purposes within a Human Body in the Fresnel Region. Numerical Simulations," IEEE Trans. Antennas and Prop., Jan . 2012, under review.
• K. Pahlavan, Y. Ye, R. Fu and U. Khan, "Challenges in Channel Measurement and Modeling for RF Localization Inside the Human Body", 2012 invited paper, Special issue on ICL-GNSS best papers, International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems, (in the press), Springer 2012.
• Umair Khan, Computational Techniques for Comparative Performance Evaluation of RF Localization inside the Human Body , 2011
• G. Noetscher, N. Chow, and S. Makarov, Modeling accuracy and features of body area networks with out-of-body antennas at 402 MHz, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, to appear vol. 53, Aug. 2011.
• F. Askarzadeh, Y. Ye, U. Khan, F. Akgul, K. Pahlavan and S. Makarov, "Computational Methods for Localization in Close Proximity ", chapter of Position Location - Theory, Practice and Advances: A Handbook for Engineers and Academics, John Wiley and Sons, 2011.

Invited keynote speech:

• Kaveh Pahlavan, Yunxing Ye, Umair Khan and Ruijun Fu, "RF Localization Inside the Human Body - Enabling micro-robotic navigation for medical applications", Invited Keynote Speech, IEEE ICL-GNSS, June 29-30, 2011, Tampere, Finland.

Invited lectures:

• K. Pahlavan et. al, "Wireless Access and Localization for Body Area Networks", invited talk, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, March 9, 2011.
• K. Pahlavan, "Channel Characterization for RF Localization Inside Human Body", 1st Invitational Workshop on BAN Technology and Applications, June 19-20, Worcester, MA.
• S. Makarov and G. Noetscher, "Channel Characterization for RF Localization Inside Human Body", 1st Invitational Workshop on BAN Technology and Applications, June 19-20, Worcester, MA.

Conferences

• G. Bao and K. Phalavan, "Motion Estimation of the Endoscopy Capsule using Region-based Kernel SVM Classifier", accepted by IEEE EIT, Rapid City, SD, May 9-11, 2013.
• G. Bao, L. Mi and K. Phalavan, "Emulation on Motion Tracking of Endoscopic Capsule inside Small Intestine", accepted by the 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'13), Las Vegas, USA, 2013.
• R. Fu, G. Bao and K. Pahlavan, “Activity Classification with Empirical RF Propagation Modeling”, submitted to 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, September 30–October 2, 2013
• G. Bao, L. Mi and K. Phalavan, “A Video Aided RF Localization Technique for the Wireless Capsule Endoscope (WCE) inside Small Intestine”, submitted to 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, September 30–October 2, 2013.
• L. Mi, G. Bao and K. Phalavan, "Design and Validation of a Virtual Environment for Experimentation inside the Small Intestine", submitted to 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, September 30–October 2, 2013.
• Jie He, Shen Li, Kaveh Pahlavan and Qin Wang, "A Realtime Testbed for Performance Evaluation of Indoor TOA Location System", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15, 2012.
• U. Khan and K. Pahlavan, "A Comparative Study of Computational Techniques for RF Localization inside the Human Body", submitted to The 34th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMBC 2012
• G. Bao, Y. Ye, U. Khan and K. Pahlavan, "Modeling of the Movement of the Endoscopy Capsule inside G.I. Tract based on the Captured Endoscopic Images", submitted to the 2012 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods(MSV'12), Las Vegas, USA, July 16-19, 2012.
• S. Li, J. He, R. Fu and K. Pahlavan, "A Hardware Platform for Performance Evaluation of In-body Sensors" , 6th IEEE International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), San Diego, CA, March 26-29, 2012.
• Pranay Swar, Kaveh Pahlavan, and Umair Khan, "Accuracy of Localization System inside Human Body using a Fast FDTD simulation Technique" 6th IEEE International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, La Jolla, CA, March, 2012.
• Pranay Swar, Yunxing Ye, Kaveh Ghaboosi, Kaveh Pahlavan, "On Effect of Transmit Power Variance on Localization Accuracy in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy", IEEE WCNC, Paris, France, April 2-5, 2012.
• Kaveh Ghaboosi, Pranay Pratap Swar and Kaveh Pahlavan, "Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Using Distributed Body Area Networks: Error & Refraction Analysis", IEEE Asilomar'11, Pacific Grove, CA, November 9-11, 2011.
• G. Noetscher, Yang Xu, and S. Makarov, "Body Area Antenna Link Modeling Using MATLAB Engine", 35th Antenna Applications Symposium, 20-22 Sep. 2011, Monticello, IL, to appear Sep. 20-22nd 2011.
• Kaveh Ghaboosi, Kaveh Pahlavan, and Carlos Pomala-Ráez, "A Cooperative Medical Traffic Delivery Mechanism for Multi-hop IEEE 802.15.6 Body Area Networks", Proceedings of the 22nd annual IEEE international symposium on personal, indoor and mobile radio communications (PIMRC), September 11-14, Toronto, Canada.
• Yunxing Ye, Umair Kahn, Nayef Alsindi, Ruijun Fu and Kaveh Pahlavan "On the accuracy of RF positioning in multi-Capsule endoscopy", Proceedings of the 22nd annual IEEE international symposium on personal, indoor and mobile radio communications (PIMRC), September 11-14, Toronto, Canada.
• 17. R. Fu, Y. Ye, N. Yang and K. Pahlavan, "Doppler Spread Analysis of Human Motions for Body Area Network Applications", Proceedings of the 22nd annual IEEE international symposium on personal, indoor and mobile radio communications (PIMRC), September 11-14, Toronto, Canada
• Yunxing Ye, Umair Kahn and Kaveh Pahlavan, "Accuracy Bounds for RSS and TOA based RF localization in capsule endoscopy", Integrating technology and medicine for a healthier tomorrow, EMBC 2011, August 30th-Sept 3rd, 2011, Boston, MA.
• U. Khan, K. Pahlavan and S. Makarov,"Comparison of TOA and RSS based techniques for RF localization inside human tissue", Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Aug. 30 2011-Sept.
• Sergey N. Makarov, Umair I. Khan, Md. Monirul Islam, Reinhold Ludwig and Kaveh Pahlavan, "On Accuracy of Simple FDTD Models for the Simulation of Human Body Path Loss", which is being presented at the 2011 IEEE Sensor Application Symposium, San Antonio, TX, February 22-24, 2011.
• Yi Wang, Ruijun Fu, Yunxing Ye, Umair Khan, and Kaveh Pahlavan, "Performance Bounds for RF Positioning of Endoscopy Camera Capsules", Proceedings of the IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, Phoenix, AZ, 16-20 January 2011.