Conversion of an ultra-wide-band (UWB) antenna to dual-band antenna for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications

Author

Saad-Bin-Alam, Md ; Moury, Sanjida

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., North South Univ., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2014

fDate

23-24 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper proposes a dual-band microstrip patch antenna to operate at both WLAN Bluetooth band (2.2 GHz to 2.83 GHz) and ultra-wide-band (4.7 GHz to 12.69 GHz). The proposed antenna is a modified version of an UWB microstrip antenna. The antenna´s radiation pattern is almost quasi/partial omni-directional and its highest gain level is reached to 5.23 dB. This antenna can be used for wireless body area network (WBAN) sensors, which currently rely on Bluetooth and UWB frequency Besides, this antenna may found other possible areas of operation e.g. wireless router, RFID tag, GPS tracker, ambient RF energy harvesting at the frequency range of ISM bands.

Keywords

Bluetooth; UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; microstrip antennas; microwave antennas; multifrequency antennas; ultra wideband antennas; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; GPS tracker; ISM bands; RFID tag; UWB microstrip antenna; WBAN applications; WLAN Bluetooth band; ambient RF energy harvesting; antenna radiation pattern; dual-band microstrip patch antenna; frequency 2.2 GHz to 2.83 GHz; frequency 4.7 GHz to 12.69 GHz; frequency range; gain 5.23 dB; partial omnidirectional pattern; quasi omnidirectional pattern; ultra-wide-band antenna; wireless body area network sensors; wireless router; Antenna radiation patterns; Bluetooth; Dual band; Gain; Microstrip antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; Bluetooth; Microstrip; Omni-directional; UWB; WBAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5179-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEV.2014.6850766

Filename

6850766