Transmission performance of an in-body to off-body UWB communication link

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E94-B, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 150-157

  Wang, Jianqing ^a   Masami, Kenichiro ^a   Wang, Qiong ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical communication; Bit error rate (BER); Channel model; In body to off body transmission; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL COMMUNICATION; BIT ERROR RATE (BER); BIT ERROR RATE PERFORMANCE; CHANNEL MODEL; DISCRETE TIME; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; HUMAN BODY MODELS; IN-BODY TO OFF-BODY TRANSMISSION; MULTI-PATH; RAKE STRUCTURES; TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND IMPULSE RADIO SYSTEMS; UWB ANTENNA; UWB COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 78650944370     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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