A statistical analysis of indoor multipath fading for a narrowband wireless body area network

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cotton, Simon L ^a   Scanlon, William G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MICROFLUIDICS; MULTIPATH FADING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE SCENARIOS; MULTI PATH; MULTI-PATH EFFECTS; NAKAGAMI FADING; NARROW BANDS; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (IGC: E4/K7); WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK (WBAN);

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 44949094392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2006.254266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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