Multiple human effects in body area networks

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 938-941

  Koutitas, George ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Body to access point (BAP) communications; multiple closed surfaces; ray tracing; uniform theory of diffraction; wireless body area networks (WBANs)

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY-TO-ACCESS POINT (BAP) COMMUNICATIONS; CHANNEL VARIATIONS; CLOSED SURFACES; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; COUPLING EFFECT; CYLINDRICAL SURFACE; FULL-WAVE TECHNIQUES; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN EFFECTS; LOWER COMPLEXITY; MUSCLE MODELS; RAY PATHS; TRANSITION BOUNDARIES; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

DIFFRACTION; RADIATION EFFECTS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 77957989088     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2082485     Document Type: Article

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