A low power impulse radio design for body-area-networks

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1458-1469

  Dokania, Rajeev K ^a   Wang, Xiao Y ^a   Tallur, Siddharth G ^a   Apsel, Alyssa B ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Body area networks; impulse radio; noncoherent detection; ultralow power radio; ultrawideband (UWB); wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

IMPULSE NOISE; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; RADIO; RADIO BROADCASTING; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; GENERATION MECHANISM; IMPULSE RADIO; LOW-DATA-RATE APPLICATIONS; NONCOHERENT DETECTION; ULTRA WIDEBAND IMPULSE RADIO; ULTRA-LOW POWER;

RADIO TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 79959774281     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2131250     Document Type: Article

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