Title :
A Novel Small-Size Printed Tapered Monopole Antenna for UWB WBAN
Author :
Verbiest, Joeri R. ; Vandenbosch, Guy A E
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. Dept., Katholieke Univ. Leuven
Abstract :
In this letter, a novel antenna topology based on the printed tapered monopole antenna (PTMA) is investigated in view of ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. First, the bandwidth in the presence of a human arm is studied. Second, the pulse distortion of a modulated Gaussian pulse is investigated, based on measured S21-parameters. We observe that there is a small acceptable influence on the matching of the antenna and that the pulse distortion is low. The main conclusion is that this modified PTMA is a very good candidate for WBAN UWB applications
Keywords :
biomedical communication; monopole antennas; radio networks; ultra wideband antennas; UWB WBAN; antenna topology; measured S21-parameters; modulated Gaussian pulse; pulse distortion; small-size printed tapered monopole antenna; ultra-wideband wireless body area network; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Body sensor networks; Distortion measurement; Humans; Network topology; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology; Ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas; wireless body area networks (WBANs);
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LAWP.2006.881920
