Towards a radio channel model for off-body communications in a multipath environment

18th European Wireless Conference, EW 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mackowiak, Michal ^a   Correia, Luís M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); STATISTICS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; MULTI-PATH COMPONENTS; MULTI-PATH ENVIRONMENTS; OFF-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO CHANNEL MODELING; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL CHANNEL MODEL;

WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84907075666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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