A Novel Small-Size Printed Tapered Monopole Antenna for UWB WBAN

Author

Verbiest, Joeri R. ; Vandenbosch, Guy A E

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Katholieke Univ. Leuven

Volume

5

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

377

Lastpage

379

Abstract

In this letter, a novel antenna topology based on the printed tapered monopole antenna (PTMA) is investigated in view of ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. First, the bandwidth in the presence of a human arm is studied. Second, the pulse distortion of a modulated Gaussian pulse is investigated, based on measured S₂₁-parameters. We observe that there is a small acceptable influence on the matching of the antenna and that the pulse distortion is low. The main conclusion is that this modified PTMA is a very good candidate for WBAN UWB applications

Keywords

biomedical communication; monopole antennas; radio networks; ultra wideband antennas; UWB WBAN; antenna topology; measured S₂₁-parameters; modulated Gaussian pulse; pulse distortion; small-size printed tapered monopole antenna; ultra-wideband wireless body area network; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Body sensor networks; Distortion measurement; Humans; Network topology; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology; Ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas; wireless body area networks (WBANs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2006.881920

Filename

1696014