On-body radio channel modeling for different human body models using FDTD techniques

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2498-2501

  Terchoune, Hanae ^a   Lautru, David ^b   Gati, Azeddine ^a   Carrasco, Albert Cortel ^a   Wong, Man Faï ^a   Wiart, Joe ^a   Hanna, Victor Fouad ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

BAN; Channel characterization; Delay spread; Path loss; SAR

Indexed keywords

BAN; CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; DELAY SPREAD; PATH LOSS; SAR;

RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 68349128999     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.24592     Document Type: Article

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