Advances in antennas and propagation for body centric wireless communications

EuCAP 2010 - The 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hall, P S ^a   Hao, Y ^b   Cotton, S L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antennas; Body centric; Communications; Radiowave propagation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION; BIRMINGHAM; BODY AREA NETWORK; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMAN BODIES; INTERNAL ORGANS; LINK PERFORMANCE; LOW-PROFILE ANTENNAS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION; RESEARCH CENTRES; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; SURFACE WAVE EXCITATION; THIN ANTENNAS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COMMUNICATION; SURFACE WAVES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77955322676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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