Channel modeling and BER performance for wearable and implant UWB body area links on chest

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 316-320

  Wang, Qiong ^a,b   Masami, Kenichiro ^a   Wang, Jianqing ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BAN; BER; Channel model; RAKE; UWB

Indexed keywords

BER PERFORMANCE; BODY AREA NETWORKS; BODY POSTURES; CHANNEL MODEL; CHANNEL MODELING; COMMUNICATION LINKS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HUMAN BODY MODELS; RAKE RECEIVER; STATISTICAL VARIATIONS; TWO-LINK; ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 71949125070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2009.5288734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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