Bionic Implants and Spectrum Clash 98
angry tapir writes "The battle over scarce radio spectrum that has embroiled the mobile broadband world even extends to a little-known type of wireless network that promises to reconnect the human nervous system with paralyzed limbs. At its monthly meeting next week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will consider whether four sets of frequencies between 413MHz and 457MHz can be used by networks of sensors implanted in patients who suffer from various forms of paralysis. One intended purpose of these MMNS (medical micropower network systems) is to transmit movement commands from a sensor on a patient's spinal cord, through a wearable MCU (master control unit), to implants that electrically stimulate nerves."
Re:Interferance would suck (Score:5, Informative)
Reed-Solomon can correct bit errors, Turbo Codes can correct block errors, and if you also include a cryptographic hash of the packet you can determine if the corrections fixed the data or it is still corrupt. Depending on the bandwidth consumed by the actual data, you might be able to throw in a lot of error correction bits and even have the error correction checksummed and error-corrected.