Channel Modeling and BER Performance of an implant UWB body area link

2nd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, ISABEL 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wang, Jianqing ^a   Wang, Qiong ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomedical communication; Bit error rate; Channel model; In body to out ofbody transmission; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

BER PERFORMANCE; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL COMMUNICATION; BIT ERROR RATE PERFORMANCE; CHANNEL MODEL; CHANNEL MODELING; DISCRETE TIME; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; HUMAN BODY MODELS; IN-BODY TO OUT-OFBODY TRANSMISSION; MULTI-PATH; RAKE STRUCTURES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND IMPULSE RADIO SYSTEMS; UWB ANTENNA; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BIT ERROR RATE; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 77949432948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISABEL.2009.5373707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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