Cooperative UWB body area networking: Channel measurement and diversity analysis

IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 303-308

  Chen, Yifan ^a   Teo, Jianqi ^b   Lai, Joshua ^b   Gunawan, Erry ^b   Low, Kaysoon ^b   Soh, Cheongboon ^b   Rapajic, Predrag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; CHANNEL PARAMETERS; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATIONS; DIVERSITY GAINS; DO-MAINS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PATH LOSSES; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; POWER DELAY PROFILES; POWER VARIATIONS; RECEIVED POWERS; UWB CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; WIDE BANDS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 57849144740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSSTA.2008.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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