A comprehensive channel model for UWB multisensor multiantenna body area networks

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 163-170

  Van Roy, Stéphane ^a,b   Oestges, Claude ^b   Horlin, François ^a   De Doncker, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body area networks; Multisensor multiantenna; Spatial correlation; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL CHANNEL MODELS; BIOLOGICAL SENSORS; BODY AREA NETWORK; CHANNEL MODEL; CLOSE PROXIMITY; DIFFRACTED WAVES; HUMAN BODIES; IEEE 802.15.4A; MULTI SENSOR; MULTI-ANTENNA; ON-BODY; OVER THE AIRS; SPACE-TIME CORRELATION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STANDARD CHANNEL MODELS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SENSORS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 73949112377     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2036280     Document Type: Article

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