Characterization of on-body communication channel for vertical and horizontal polarization of center fed dipole at GSM frequency

Author

Khattak, Muhammad Irfan ; Edwards, Robert ; Shafi, Muhammad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Peshawar, Pakistan

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 April 2014

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

318

Abstract

While designing a wearable antenna for on-body communications, particular importance is given to lessen the lossy effects of the human body on transmission coefficient. This paper presents experimental and simulation results for two different polarizations of center-fed dipole antenna on human body at mobile communication frequency. The isolated parameter is S₂₁(dB). Early results suggest that vertical polarization of dipole gives better transmission coefficient than horizontal polarization.

Keywords

antenna feeds; biomedical communication; cellular radio; dipole antennas; electromagnetic wave polarisation; electromagnetic wave transmission; wearable antennas; wireless channels; GSM frequency; center fed dipole antenna; horizontal polarization; mobile communication frequency; on-body communication channel; transmission coefficient; vertical polarization; wearable antenna; Antenna measurements; Biological system modeling; Dipole antennas; Educational institutions; Transmitting antennas; S21(dB); dipole antenna; on-body channel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Region 10 Symposium, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2028-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCONSpring.2014.6863049

Filename

6863049