Performance of UWB impulse radio with planar monopoles over on-human-body propagation channel for wireless body area networks

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2907-2914

  Zhang, Yue Ping ^a   Li, Qiang ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Body area network (BAN); Impulse radio (IR); Modulation; On human body channel; Pulse shape; Radio propagation; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MODULATION; TRANSCEIVERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

IMPULSE RADIO; ULTRAWIDEBAND; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 35348876035     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.905825     Document Type: Article

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