Title :
Low-profile on-body communication antenna configuration with embedded electronics inside
Author :
Tommi Tuovinen;Markus Berg;Erkki Salonen
Author_Institution :
Centre for Wireless Communications, Department of Communications Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland
Abstract :
The present paper proposes an on-body antenna for wearable sensor nodes/wireless body area networks (WBANs) at 10 GHz. The radiator configuration follows the recently introduced new antenna design philosophy where electronics are embedded inside the antenna. The suggested sensor node antenna structure has a low total profile of λ/3 in the x- and y-directions and λ/5 in the z-direction. The antenna radiator is designed by maintaining pure normal polarization with a body surface and omnidirectional radiation pattern in the tangential plane of a body.
Keywords :
"Wireless communication","Antenna radiation patterns","Phantoms","Textiles","Surface waves","Body area networks"
Conference_Titel :
Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2015 Loughborough
DOI :
10.1109/LAPC.2015.7366042
