Antennas and propagation for on-body communication systems

• Main Authors: Kamarudin, Muhammad Ramlee, Hall, Peter S., yang, Hao, Nechayev, Yuriv I., Alomainy, Akram, Constantinou, Costas C., Parini, Clive, Salim, Tareq Z., David T., M. Hee, Bubrovka, Rostyslav, Owadally, Abdus S., Wei, Song, Serra, Andrea, Nepa, Paolo, Gallo, Michele, Bozzetti, Michele
• Format: Article
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2007
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/8613/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAP.2007.4293935
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

On-body communication channels are of increasing interest for a number of applications, such as medical-sensor networks, emergency-service workers, and personal communications. This paper describes investigations into channel characterization and antenna performance at 2.45 GHz. It is shown that sig...