Transient characteristics of wearable antennas and radio propagation channels for ultrawideband body-centric wireless communications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 4 PART. 1, 2009, Pages 875-884

  Alomainy, Akram ^a   Sani, Andrea ^a   Rahman, Atiqur ^a   Santas, Jaime G ^a   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body centric wireless network; Body worn antenna; Radio propagation; Transient domain; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORKS; BODY-CENTRIC WIRELESS NETWORK; BODY-WORN ANTENNA; CONVENTIONAL COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; CPW FEDS; FIDELITY ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE-MATCHING; ON BODIES; PERSONAL AREA NETWORK (PAN]); RADIO PROPAGATION; RADIO PROPAGATION CHANNELS; SIZE REDUCTIONS; TAPERED SLOT ANTENNAS; TAPERED SLOTS; TIME DOMAINS; TRANSIENT CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSIENT DOMAIN; TRANSIENT MEASUREMENTS; UWB RADIOS; WEARABLE ANTENNAS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SLOT ANTENNAS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 65549086080     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2014588     Document Type: Article

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