Human-centric connectivity enabled by body-coupled communications - [Consumer communications and networking]

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 172-178

  Baldus, Heribert ^a   Corroy, Steven ^a   Fazzi, Alberto ^a   Klabunde, Karin ^a   Schenk, Tim ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Electrodes; Frequency shift keying; Mobile handsets; Radio frequency; Receivers; Transceivers

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CLOSE PROXIMITY; COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN-CENTRIC; MOBILE HANDSETS; PROTOCOL DESIGN; RADIO FREQUENCY; RECEIVERS; RESEARCH TOPICS; SIGNAL PROPAGATION;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMMUNICATION; ELECTRODES; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; MOBILE DEVICES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RADIO; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO WAVES; TELEPHONE SETS; TRANSCEIVERS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 67651113733     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2009.5116816     Document Type: Review

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