Antennas and propagation for body centric wireless communications

Author

Hao, Y. ; Alomainy, A. ; Hall, P.S. ; Nechayev, Y.I. ; Parini, C.G. ; Constantinou, C.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., London Univ., UK

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 April 2005

Firstpage

586

Lastpage

589

Abstract

In this paper, on-body propagation modelling has been investigated applying various numerical computational techniques. Propagation measurements with body-worn antennas have been carried out at 2.4 GHz inside and outside an anechoic chamber respectively for narrowband communication channel characterisation. Both simulation and measurement results have been also obtained at the UWB (ultra wide-band) band.

Keywords

UHF antennas; UHF radio propagation; anechoic chambers (electromagnetic); finite difference time-domain analysis; mobile antennas; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband communication; 2.4 GHz; FDTD; UWB; anechoic chamber; body centric wireless communications; body-worn antennas; narrowband communication channel characterisation; numerical computational techniques; onbody propagation modelling; propagation measurements; ultrawideband communication; Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Biological system modeling; Communication channels; Finite difference methods; Humans; Narrowband; Time domain analysis; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, 2005. IEEE/ACES International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9068-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCACEM.2005.1469656

Filename

1469656