Channel modeling and performance evaluation of UWB-based wireless body area networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Takizawa, Kenichi ^a   Aoyagi, Takahiro ^a   Kohno, Ryuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Channel modeling; Ultra wideband (UWB); Wireless body area network (WBAN)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATIOS; CHANNEL MODEL; CHANNEL MODELING; ERROR RATIO; HOSPITAL ROOMS; MEASURED CHANNEL; NON-COHERENT RECEIVERS; PACKET ERROR RATIOS; PACKET SIZE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK (WBAN);

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FREQUENCY BANDS; INTERNET; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNALING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 70449487828     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2009.5198820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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