Characterization of the on-body channel in an outdoor environment at 2.45 GHz

European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2009, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 722-725

  Cotton, Simon L ^a   Scanlon, William G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY DYNAMICS; LEVEL CROSSING RATES; MAXIMUM DOPPLER FREQUENCY; NAKAGAMI-M PARAMETER; NODE LOCATION; ON-BODY; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; TRANSMISSION PATHS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349849756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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