Indoor Off-Body wireless MIMO communication with dual polarized textile antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 631-642

  Van Torre, Patrick ^a,b   Vallozzi, Luigi ^a   Hertleer, Carla ^a   Rogier, Hendrik ^a   Moeneclaey, Marc ^a   Verhaevert, Jo ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body centric; diversity; ISM band; multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems; space time codes; textile antennas

Indexed keywords

BODY-CENTRIC; DIVERSITY; ISM BANDS; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; SPACE-TIME CODES; TEXTILE ANTENNAS;

COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; HOSIERY MANUFACTURE; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; TEXTILES; WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

MIMO SYSTEMS;

EID: 79551642743     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2096389     Document Type: Article

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