Title :
Investigation of wearable antennas performance in static LOS and NLOS on-body channels
Author :
Paraskevopoulos, A. ; Alexandridis, A. ; Lazarakis, F. ; Zervos, T. ; Michalopoulou, A. ; Vardaxoglou, J.C.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron., Electr. & Syst. Eng., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK
Abstract :
In this paper modelling of specific on-body channels is conducted by using three different antenna types. Our goal is to investigate antennas performance in different on-body contexts and examine antennas propagation mechanisms. For this purpose, a measurement campaign is performed. Results will be provided in terms of channel gain, slow and fast fading modelling by performing statistical analysis of received signal envelope.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; statistical analysis; wearable antennas; NLOS on-body channels; antennas propagation mechanisms; static LOS on-body channels; statistical analysis; wearable antennas performance; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Fading; Gain; Hidden Markov models; Shadow mapping; on-body channel modelling; wearable antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2014 Loughborough
Conference_Location :
Loughborough
DOI :
10.1109/LAPC.2014.6996396
