Title :
Diversity characterization of body-worn textile antenna system at 2.4 GHz
Author :
Ouyang, Yuehui ; Chappell, William J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Abstract :
A body-worn textile antenna system which consists of four electrotextile patch antennas is demonstrated in this paper. A series of experiments to characterize the diversity performance of the antenna for indoor multipath environments have been conducted. From these experiments, we show that the proposed wearable antenna configuration delivers an 8-12 dB improvement in signal level in fading that occur 10% of the time, compared to a single antenna in the same environments
Keywords :
UHF antennas; diversity reception; indoor communication; microstrip antennas; 2.4 GHz; body-worn textile antenna system; diversity characterization; diversity performance; electrotextile patch antennas; indoor multipath environments; single antenna; wearable antenna configuration; Antenna measurements; Application software; Bandwidth; Fabrics; Humans; Patch antennas; Textiles; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0123-2
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2006.1711001
