Preliminary study of rain effect on channel gain of body area communication

2009 Joint Conferences on Pervasive Computing, JCPC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 657-660

  Xie, Yu ^a   Li, Yinlin ^a   Huang, Zhonghua ^a   Cui, Zhanzhong ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ambient humidity; Body area communication; Rainy day

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT HUMIDITY; ANALYSIS RESULTS; BODY CHANNELS; CHANNEL GAINS; ELECTRIC MODELS; FREQUENCY RANGES; HUMAN BODIES; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; RAIN EFFECTS; RECEIVED SIGNALS;

CAPACITANCE; COMMUNICATION; RAIN;

MOISTURE;

EID: 77951289230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/JCPC.2009.5420102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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