Performance of ultra wideband on-body communication based on statistical channel model

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E93-B, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 833-841

  Wang, Qiong ^a,b   Wang, Jianqing ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Channel model; On body communication; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; ERROR STATISTICS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIT ERROR RATE (BER) PERFORMANCE; CHANNEL MODEL; COMMUNICATION DISTANCE; CORRELATION RECEIVERS; ON-BODY; STATISTICAL CHANNEL MODEL; STRUCTURE COMPLEXITY;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 77950463532     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E93.B.833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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