Wireless communication for firefighters using dual-polarized textile antennas integrated in their garment

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1357-1368

  Vallozzi, Luigi ^a   Van Torre, Patrick ^a,b   Hertleer, Carla ^a   Rogier, Hendrik ^a   Moeneclaey, Marc ^a   Verhaevert, Jo ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body centric communications; Firefighter; Pattern polarization diversity; Textile antenna; Wearable antenna system

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SYSTEM; COMBINING TECHNIQUES; COMMUNICATION LINKS; DUAL-POLARIZED; INDOOR MEASUREMENT; ON-BODY; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; RECEIVER DIVERSITY; SIGNAL CORRELATION; TEXTILE ANTENNA; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; TEXTILE MATERIALS; THEORETICAL RESULT; WEARABLE ANTENNAS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ANTENNAS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TEXTILES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77950806715     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2041168     Document Type: Article

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