Dependence of transmission characteristics of intra-body communication system on the body posture and surrounding environment

2011 30th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, URSIGASS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Igou, Shouta ^a   Taki, Masao ^a   Furuya, Akinori ^b   Shibata, Nobutaro ^b   Shinagawa, Mitsuru ^b   Hattori, Mitsuo ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NTT Advance Technology Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURES; HUMAN BODIES; INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; NEAR-FIELD; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; WEARABLE DEVICES;

ASSEMBLY; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 81255165734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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