Modelling of propagation and interaction between body-mounted antennas, and the modelling of Body-Centric, context aware application scenarios

Author

Sani, Andrea ; Zhao, Yan ; Alomainy, Akram ; Hao, Yang ; Parini, Clive

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2009

fDate

20-20 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Body area networks consist of a number of sensor placed in proximity or inside the human body. The paper presents a simulation environment based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), for radio propagation modelling of body-centric wireless devices. The proposed numerical tool has been applied to characterize the body losses in implanted devices, and to study the body communication channel in a hospital environment. The results highlighted the significance of subject specific modeling when designing wireless implants, and body worn systems.

Keywords

antennas; body area networks; finite difference time-domain analysis; radiowave propagation; ubiquitous computing; FDTD; body area networks; body communication channel; body mounted antennas; body sensor networks; body worn systems; body-centric wireless devices; context aware application scenarios; finite-difference time-domain; hospital environment; numerical tool; radio propagation modelling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications, 2009 2nd IET Seminar on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

978-1-84919-129-6

Type

conf

Filename

5116765