On and off-body radio channel performance of a dual band Planar Inverted F Antenna

Author

Khan, M.M. ; Parvez, Sirajum Monir ; Ohadin Nabi, A.K. ; Bristi, Salsabil-E-Zinnath

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

23-24 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Experimental results of on-body radio propagation channels at 2.45 GHz and off-body radio propagation channels at 1.9 GHz using a dual band Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA) are presented in this paper. Measurement campaigns are performed in the chamber and in an indoor environment. A frequency-domain measurement set-up was applied for both on-body and off-body radio propagation channel cases. The path loss has been characterized for ten different on-body radio channels at 2.45 GHz. Five different off-body radio channels are investigated at 1.9 GHz. The proposed antenna shows very good on-body and off-body radio channel performance.

Keywords

planar inverted-F antennas; radio networks; radiowave propagation; wireless channels; PIFA; dual band planar inverted F antenna; frequency domain measurement; indoor environment; off-body radio channel performance; radio propagation channels; Antenna measurements; Loss measurement; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication; On-body communications; body-centric wireless communications; dual band PIFA; off-body communications; on/off-body radio channels; path loss;

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.2014.6850848

Filename

6850848