Study on the electric field distributions around whole body model with a wearable device using the human body as a transmission channel

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 626 SP, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fujii, Katsuyuki ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^b   Koichi, I T O ^b   Inagaki, Naoki ^a  

^a NANZAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS (PAN); TRANSMISSION CHANNELS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WEARABLE DEVICES;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847376533     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eucap.2006.4584862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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