  Fertility monitoring in humans for either natural conception or artificial
insemination and fertilization has been a critical challenge both for the
treating physician and the treated patients. Eggs in human female can be
fertilized when they reach the Fallopian tube from the upper parts of the
reproductive system. However, no technology, till date, on its own could detect
the presence of eggs in the Fallopian tube and communicate their presence to
the consulting physician or nurse and the patient, so that the next step can be
initiated in a timely fashion. In this paper, we propose a conceptual
architecture from a communications engineering point of view. The architecture
combines intra-body nano-sensor network for detecting Fallopian tube activity,
with body-area network for receiving information from the intra-body network
and communicating the same over-the-air to the involved personnel
(physician/nurse/patient). Preliminary simulations have been conducted using
particle based stochastic simulator to investigate the relationship between
achievable information rates, signal to noise ratio (SNR) and distance. It has
been found that data rate as high as 300 Mbps is achievable at SNR 45. Hence,
the proposed architecture ensures transfer of information with near-zero
latency and minimum energy along with high throughput, so that necessary action
can be taken within the short time-window of the Fallopian tube activity.
