Cooperative communications in ultra-wideband wireless body area networks: Channel modeling and system diversity analysis

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-16

  Chen, Yifan ^a,b   Teo, Jianqi ^c   Lai, Joshua ^c   Gunawan, Erry ^c   Low, Kay ^c   Soh, Cheong ^c   Rapajic, Predrag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Body area network; Channel modeling; Cooperative networks; Diversity; On body propagation; Time domain measurements; Ultra wideband system

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BROADBAND NETWORKS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; CHANNEL MODELING; COOPERATIVE NETWORKS; DIVERSITY; ON-BODY PROPAGATION; TIME-DOMAIN MEASUREMENTS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND SYSTEM;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 58149520288     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090102     Document Type: Article

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