Human effect on on-body selective combining at 2.4 GHz

Author

Al-Saffar, D. ; Habeeb, E. ; Edwards, R.M. ; Ojerinde, O. ; Alsabbagh, H.M. ; Panagamuwa, C.J.

Author_Institution

Centre for Mobile Commun. Res., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

10-11 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

381

Lastpage

384

Abstract

Use of the body as a platform for wearable electronics is a topical subject. Omnidirectional antennas are thought to be useful for antennas in body area networks. However, the desirable properties of omnidirectional radiation patterns close to humans are severely diminished due to the lossy load nature of biological matter and high levels of scattering due to mismatch. To alleviate these problems two or more antennas can be used on the body. In this paper, two on body antennas are used with selective combining and then compared with their free space equivalents. The frequency of operation is 2.4GHz.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; diversity reception; omnidirectional antennas; wearable antennas; biological matter; body area networks; frequency 2.4 GHz; human effect; omnidirectional antennas; omnidirectional radiation patterns; on-body selective combining; wearable electronics; Antenna measurements; Diversity reception; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Body Area Networks; CDF; Radio Frequency Measurements; SC; SIMO; on-body channels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2014 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2014.6996402

Filename

6996402