A statistical model for on-body dynamic channels

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 92-104

  D'Errico, Raffaele ^a   Ouvry, Laurent ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

2.4 GHz; Body area networks; On body channel; Shadowing correlation; Time variant channel; UWB

Indexed keywords

2.4 GHZ; BODY AREA NETWORK; ON-BODY; SHADOWING CORRELATION; TIME VARIANT CHANNELS; UWB;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

EID: 78650873424     PISSN: 10689605     EISSN: 15728129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10776-010-0122-0     Document Type: Article

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