Investigation of on-body Bluetooth transmission

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 871-880

  Ur Rehman, M ^a   Gao, Y ^a   Wang, Z ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Alfadhl, Y ^a   Chen, X ^a   Parini, C G ^a   Ying, Z ^b   Bolin, T ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH HEADSETS; CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; COMMUNICATION DEVICE; COMMUNICATION LINKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN BODIES; MOBILE PHONE HANDSETS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; ON-BODY; TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS; WEARABLE DEVICES; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

MOBILE ANTENNAS; MOBILE PHONES; SURFACE WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE SETS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

BLUETOOTH;

EID: 77955264608     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2008.0339     Document Type: Article

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