Estimating diversity for body-worn antennas

European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2009, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 704-708

  Psychoudakis, Dimitris ^a   Lee, Gil Young ^a   Chen, Chi Chih ^a   Volakis, John L ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; BODY EFFECT; BODYWORN ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION DATA; COMPUTATION TIME; ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS; EVALUATION METHOD; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN POSTURES; INCIDENT ANGLES; OPERATION FREQUENCY; OPTIMUM CONFIGURATIONS; POST PROCESSING;

POLARIZATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349858037     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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