Experimental characterization and statistical analysis of the pseudo-dynamic ultrawideband on-body radio channel

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 748-751

  Abbasi, Qammer H ^a,b   Sani, Andrea ^a   Alomainy, Akram ^a   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

On body communications; second order statistics; ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE FADE DURATION; BODY MOVEMENTS; CHANNEL PARAMETER; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FIRST-ORDER STATISTICS; LEVEL CROSSING RATES; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MEASURED CHANNEL; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; ON-BODY; ON-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; PATH LOSS; POST-MEASUREMENT; RADIO CHANNELS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DELAYS; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SECOND ORDERS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 80051761898     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2162811     Document Type: Article

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