Ultra wide-band body area channel model

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2840-2844

  Fort, Andrew ^a,d   Desset, Claude ^a   Ryckaert, Julien ^a   De Doncker, Philippe ^b   Van Biesen, Leo ^c   Donnay, Stephane ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c VUE   (Belgium)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body area network; Propagation channel; Stochastic tapped delay line model; Ultra wide band

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MODEL; HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMAN BODY; RADIO CHANNEL;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL CAPACITY;

EID: 24144492988     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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