An ultra-wideband wireless body area network: Evaluation in static and dynamic channel conditions

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 180, Issue , 2012, Pages 137-147

  Ho, Chee Keong ^a   See, Terence S P ^b   Yuce, Mehmet R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Medical sensor network; Ultra wideband sensor network; Wireless body area network

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENTS; CALL CENTRES; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; CONTROL UNIT; HUMAN BODIES; MEDICAL SENSOR NETWORKS; OPTIMAL RECEIVER; REMOTE LOCATION; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS; SENSOR POSITION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STATIC CHANNELS; STATIC EXPERIMENTS; TEST DURATION; TRANSMISSION POWER; ULTRA-WIDEBAND SENSORS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND WIRELESS; WALKING MOTION; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS SENSOR;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84861752708     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2012.03.046     Document Type: Article

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