A human body model for efficient numerical characterization of UWB signal propagation in wireless body area networks

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 689-697

  Lim, Hooi Been ^a   Baumann, Dirk ^b   Li, Er Ping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body area networks (BANs); discone antenna; human arm; ultra wideband (UWB); wave propagation

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; COMPLEXITY LEVELS; DISCONE ANTENNA; EFFICIENT SIMULATION; HEALTH MONITORING; HUMAN ARM; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN BODY MODELS; IN-DEPTH STUDY; INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; SHAPE AND SIZE; SIMULATION ACCURACY; SIMULATION RESULT; STRUCTURE COMPLEXITY; TISSUE COMPOSITION; ULTRA WIDEBAND SIGNAL PROPAGATION; UWB SIGNALS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

ANTENNAS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ACCURACY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AMPLIFIER; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY SIZE; BONE MARROW; BONE TISSUE; CORTICAL BONE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE TISSUE; SENSOR; SIMULATION; SKIN CULTURE; WIDE AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARM; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TELEMETRY;

EID: 79952122961     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2091128     Document Type: Article

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