Numerical characterization and modeling of subject-specific ultrawideband body-centric radio channels and systems for healthcare applications

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-227

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

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

body centric wireless network; finite difference time domain (FDTD); orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Ultrawideband

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE (BER) PERFORMANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; DIGITAL PHANTOMS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN TECHNIQUE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN BODIES; INHOMOGENEOUS OBJECTS; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION; ON-BODY; ON-SITE MEASUREMENT; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM); PATH LOSS EXPONENT; RADIO CHANNELS; SIMULATION TOOL; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; SYSTEM MODELING; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HEALTH CARE; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RADIO LINKS; RADIO WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY MASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; REPRODUCIBILITY; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84858139358     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2177526     Document Type: Article

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