Study on the transmission mechanism for wearable device using the human body as a transmission channel

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E88-B, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2401-2408

  Fujii, Katsuyuki ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Ito, Koichi ^a,d,e   Hachisuka, Keisuke ^b   Terauchi, Yusuke ^b   Kishi, Yoshinori ^b   Sasaki, Ken ^b   Itao, Kiyoshi ^c,f,g,h,i,j  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d Technical Group on Signal Processing

^e IEICE ^*

^f Horological Institute of Japan   (Japan)

^g Optical Disk Standardization Committee of Japan   (Japan)

^h Advanced Technology Institute   (United States)

ⁱ Non profitable Organization of Wearable Environmental Information Network (WIN)

^j Japan Society of Precision Engineering   (Japan)

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Author keywords

FDTD; Human body; Intra body communication; Personal area network; Phantom

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSMITTERS;

FDTD; HUMAN BODY; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATION; PERSONAL AREA NETWORK; PHANTOM;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

EID: 25844502489     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.6.2401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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