Feasibility of backscatter RFID systems on the human body

Eurasip Journal on Embedded Systems

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Grosinger, Jasmin ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Backscatter Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems; Feasibility analysis; On body channel measurements; On body RFID systems; RFID outage probabilities; Wireless body area networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894607587     PISSN: 16873955     EISSN: 16873963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-3963-2013-2     Document Type: Article

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