Channel characterization and diversity feasibility for in-body to on-body communication using low-band UWB signals

2010 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, ISABEL 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shi, Jingjing ^a   Wang, Jianqing ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; DATA RATES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; HUMAN BODY MODELS; HUMAN TISSUES; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; ON-BODY; PATH LOSS; REAL-TIME IMAGES; SHADOW FADING; SPACE DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES; ULTRA WIDEBAND SIGNALS; UWB SIGNALS; WIRELESS LINK;

COMMUNICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 79952026923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISABEL.2010.5702784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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