RF propagation and channel modeling for UWB wearable devices

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E94-B, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1126-1134

  Yekeh Yazdandoost, Kamya ^a   Sayrafian Pour, Kamran ^b   Hamaguchi, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body area network; Channel model; Immersive visualization system; UWB antenna

Indexed keywords

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WEARABLE SENSORS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; CHANNEL MODEL; CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION; MEASUREMENT EXPERIMENTS; UWB ANTENNA; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 79955601976     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.1126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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