Channel model on various frequency bands for wearable Body Area Network

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E92-B, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 418-424

  Katayama, Norihiko ^a,b   Takizawa, Kenichi ^b   Aoyagi, Takahiro ^b   Takada, Jun Ichi ^b   Li, Huan Bang ^b   Kohno, Ryuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Body Area Network (BAN); Path loss model; Wearable BAN channel model

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; WEARABLE SENSORS;

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; BIOLOGICAL SENSORS; BODY AREA NETWORKS; CHANNEL MODEL; HEALTHCARE SERVICES; PATH LOSS MODELS; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; WEARABLE BODY AREA NETWORKS;

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 71049148629     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E92.B.418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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