Theoretical and experimental error performance and data-throughput of on-body UWB-based WBANs in the presence of timing-jitter

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1672-1685

  Abou El Nasr, M ^a   Shaban, H ^a  

^a Egypt Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BER PERFORMANCE; BIT ERROR RATE (BER) PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; HIGH POWER CONSUMPTION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMAL DETECTORS; RELIABLE TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

JITTER; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; SENSOR NODES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THROUGHPUT;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84882448203     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2013.822834     Document Type: Article

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