Ultra-wide-band transmitter for low-power wireless body area networks: Design and evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2515-2525

  Ryckaert, Julien ^a,b   Desset, Claude ^a   Fort, Andrew ^a,b   Badaroglu, Mustafa ^a   De Heyn, Vincent ^a   Wambacq, Piet ^a,b   Van der Plas, Geert ^a   Donnay, Stéphane ^a   Van Poucke, Bart ^a   Gyselinckx, Bert ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Low power transceivers; Ultra wide band (UWB); Wireless body area networks (WBANs)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MICROSENSORS; MODULATION; PULSE GENERATORS; RADIO LINKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOW-POWER TRANSCEIVERS; ULTRA-WIDE BAND (UWB) TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS (WBANS);

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 29344434938     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.858187     Document Type: Article

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