A 1.12 pJ/b inductive transceiver with a fault-tolerant network switch for multi-layer wearable body area network applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2999-3010

  Yoo, Jerald ^a   Lee, Seulki ^a   Yoo, Hoi Jun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Capacitor bank; Digital compensation; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant network; Inductive coupling; Resonance compensation; Wearable network

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR BANK; DIGITAL COMPENSATION; FAULT-TOLERANT NETWORK; INDUCTIVE COUPLING; WEARABLE NETWORK;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; FAULT TOLERANCE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESONANCE; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TRANSCEIVERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

EID: 70449484366     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2028952     Document Type: Article

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