An improved antenna mounting for ultra-wideband on-body communications and channel characterization

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 4 PART 2, 2011, Pages 1102-1108

  Thompson, William ^a   Cepeda, Rafael ^b   Hilton, Geoffrey ^a   Beach, Mark A ^a   Armour, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenna measurements; antenna mounting; body area network (BAN); electromagnetic coupling; ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA MEASUREMENT; BODY AREA NETWORKS; CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FREE SPACE; HUMAN BODIES; ON-BODY; RADIATED POWER; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MOUNTINGS; REFLECTION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 79954589522     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2114130     Document Type: Article

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