Ground plane shape effects on around the body area network at 1.8GHz and 2.45GHz

Author

Shafi, Muhammad ; Khattak, Muhammad Irfan ; Khan, Naeemm ; Saleem, Mohammad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Software Eng., Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Peshawar, Pakistan

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 April 2014

Firstpage

426

Lastpage

429

Abstract

In design and synthesis of wearable antenna, the isolation of antenna and human body is always given paramount importance because this shielding has a pronounced effect on antenna parameters such as resonant frequency, input impedance and radiation pattern. This paper deals with the effects of different shapes of ground plane of quarter-wave monopole antenna on on-body communications around the human body model at 1.8 and 2.45GHz. A non line-of-sight (NLOS) situation is demonstrated. Results show that the circular ground plane is providing better communication link than square shape for monopole antenna at mentioned mobile communication frequencies.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; electromagnetic shielding; mobile communication; monopole antennas; telecommunication links; wearable antennas; NLOS situation; antenna radiation pattern; antenna shielding; body area network; circular ground plane shape effect; communication link; frequency 1.8 GHz; frequency 2.45 GHz; human body model; input impedance; mobile communication; nonline-of-sight situation; on-body communication; quarter-wave monopole antenna; resonant frequency; wearable antenna isolation; Antenna radiation patterns; Biological system modeling; Biomedical monitoring; Clothing; Shape; Transmitting antennas; Human body model; Monopole antenna; S21(dB); ground plane;

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.2014.6863070

Filename

6863070