Body area UWB RAKE receiver communication

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 10, Issue , 2006, Pages 4682-4687

  Fort, Andrew ^a,b   Desset, Claude ^a   Wambacq, Piet ^a,b   Van Biesen, Leo ^b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT MONITORING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; RAKE RECEIVER; STOCHASTIC TAPPED-DELAY LINE MODEL;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846792538     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2006.255379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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