Dynamic propagation channel characterization and modeling for human body communication

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 17569-17587

  Nie, Zedong ^a,b   Ma, Jingjing ^c   Li, Zhicheng ^a,b   Chen, Hong ^a,b   Wang, Lei ^a,b  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Low cost Healthcare   (China)

^c Testing and Technology Center for Industrial Products   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamic channel model; Fritchman model; Human body communication; Motion insensitive; Propagation; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE LEVEL CROSSING RATES; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITIES; DYNAMIC CHANNELS; HUMAN BODY COMMUNICATIONS; MOTION-INSENSITIVE; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

ALGORITHM; ART; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; MOVEMENT; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84871673244     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s121217569     Document Type: Article

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