Stability of narrowband dynamic body area channel

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 53-56

  Zhang, Jian ^a,b   Smith, David B ^a,b   Hanlen, Leif W ^a,b   Miniutti, Dino ^a,b   Rodda, David ^a,b   Gilbert, Ben ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body area networks (BAN); Coherence time

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENTS; BODY-AREA NETWORKS (BAN); CHANNEL COHERENCES; CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE; CHANNEL VARIATIONS; COHERENCE TIME; HUMAN BODIES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NARROW BANDS; NEW PARAMETERS; ON BODIES; REAL-TIME MEASUREMENTS; TEMPORAL STABILITIES; TIME DOMAINS; CHANNEL COHERENCE; ON-BODY; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; TEMPORAL STABILITY; TIME DOMAIN;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMPULSE RESPONSE; TIME MEASUREMENT;

STABILITY;

EID: 65249155293     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2011505     Document Type: Article

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