An antennas and propagation approach to improving physical layer performance in wireless body area networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-36

  Conway, Gareth A ^a   Cotton, Simon L ^a   Scanlon, William G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body area network; Channel characterization; Diversity; On body channels; Wearable antennas

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MUSCLE; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; DIVERSITY; ON-BODY CHANNELS; WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 58149479492     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090104     Document Type: Article

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