Theory of propagation for direct on-body wireless sensor communications

IET Seminar Digest

Volumn 2009, Issue 12722, 2009, Pages

  Vaughan, Rodney G ^a   Lea, Andrew ^a   Hui, Ping ^b   Ollikainen, Jani ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Norton wave; On body propagation; Surface waves; Wireless sensors; Zenneck wave

Indexed keywords

ON-BODY; ON-BODY PROPAGATION; WIRELESS SENSOR; ZENNECK WAVE; ZENNECK WAVES;

COMMUNICATION; DATA TRANSFER; SENSORS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 76749170293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ic.2009.0087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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