On-body radio channel characterization and system-level modeling for multiband OFDM ultra-wideband body-centric wireless network

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 12 PART 1, 2010, Pages 3485-3492

  Abbasi, Qammer Hussain ^a   Sani, Andrea ^a   Alomainy, Akram ^a   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body centric wireless communications; multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB OFDM); on body radio channel; ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY POSTURES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MULTI-BAND ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MULTIBAND; MULTIBAND OFDM; ON-BODY; OPTIMAL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION; RADIO CHANNELS; RADIO PROPAGATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEM-LEVEL MODELING; USER-CENTRIC; UWB RADIOS; UWB SYSTEM; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BIT ERROR RATE; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO LINKS; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 78650281760     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2081491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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