Design of a dual-band antenna for wearable wireless body area network repeater systems

Author

Kyeol Kwon ; Jinpil Tak ; Jaehoon Choi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

418

Lastpage

421

Abstract

A dual-band on-body antenna for a wireless body area network repeater system is proposed. The designed dual-band antenna has the radiation directed toward the inside of the human body at MICS band and directed toward the outside at ISM band to transmit information collected from an implanted device to an external monitoring system. In addition, the return loss property of the antenna is insensitive to human body effects by utilizing the epsilon negative zeroth-order resonance property.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; multifrequency antennas; repeaters; ISM band; MICS band; dual-band on-body antenna; epsilon negative zeroth-order resonance property; external monitoring system; human body effects; wearable wireless body area network repeater systems; Antennas; Connectors; Microwave integrated circuits; Phantoms; dual band; epsilon negative zeroth-order resonance (ENG ZOR); insensitivity; on-body antenna; wireless body area network repeater system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546296