Characterization and modeling of dynamic on-body propagation at 4.5 GHz

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 1263-1267

  Zhen, Bin ^a   Kim, Minseok ^b   Takada, Jun Ichi ^b   Kohno, Ryuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body area networks; Channel characterization; Finite state markov model; On body propagation

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY MOVEMENTS; CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; CHANNEL QUALITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; DWELLING TIME; ERROR-STATE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FADING DURATION; FINITE-STATE; FREE STATE; LEVEL CROSSING RATES; MEASURED DATA; MODELING OF DYNAMICS; ON-BODY; ON-BODY PROPAGATION; PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WIRELESS DEVICES;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77955019446     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2036749     Document Type: Article

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