Wideband power modeling and time dispersion analysis for UWB indoor off-body communications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2162-2171

  Goulianos, Angelos A ^a   Brown, Tim W C ^a   Evans, Barry G ^a   Stavrou, Stavros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body to access point (BAP) channel; Total power gain; Ultrawideband (UWB); Wireless body area networks (WBAN)

Indexed keywords

BODY ORIENTATION; BODY TO ACCESS POINT (BAP) CHANNEL; BREAKPOINT; CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; CHANNEL VARIATIONS; DENSE MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENT; EMPIRICAL DATA; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; FREQUENCY RANGES; GENERAL TRENDS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; MULTI-PATH COMPONENTS; OFF-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; ON-BODY; POWER MODELING; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RMS DELAY SPREAD; SIGNAL POWER; SIMULATION RESULT; STATISTICAL MODELS; TIME DISPERSION; TOTAL POWER GAIN; WIDE-BAND; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS (WBAN);

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISPERSION (WAVES); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RESERVATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 67949114301     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2021928     Document Type: Article

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