Experimental evaluation of implant UWB-IR transmission with living animal for body area networks

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 183-192

  Anzai, Daisuke ^a   Katsu, Kenta ^a   Chavez Santiago, Raul ^b   Wang, Qiong ^c   Plettemeier, Dirk ^c   Wang, Jianqing ^a   Balasingham, Ilangko ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implant body area networks (BANs); Living animal experiment; Ultra wideband impulse radio (UWB IR) transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RADIO TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; IMPULSE RADIOS; LIVING ANIMALS; MULTIPULSE PULSE POSITION MODULATIONS; ULTRA WIDEBAND IMPULSE RADIO; ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LINKS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84892407330     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2291542     Document Type: Article

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