The human body characteristics as a signal transmission medium for intrabody communication

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1080-1085

  Cho, Namjun ^a,b   Yoo, Jerald ^a,b   Song, Seong Jun ^a,b   Lee, Jeabin ^a,b   Jeon, Seonghyun ^a,b   Yoo, Hoi Jun ^a,b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ^*

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Body antenna effect; Body channel model; Distributed RC model; Human body communication; Intrabody communication; Near field coupling

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BODY ANTENNA EFFECTS; BODY CHANNEL MODELS; CHANNEL PROPERTIES; DISTRIBUTED RC MODELS; HUMAN BODY COMMUNICATION; INTRABODY COMMUNICATION; NEAR FIELD COUPLING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34248189115     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.895640     Document Type: Article

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