• DocumentCode
    232945
  • Title

    Propagation along a human body surface in WBAN: Remarks of desirable antenna characteristics

  • Author

    Berg, Markus ; Tuovinen, Tommi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Commun. Eng., Univ. of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    3-5 Nov. 2014
  • Firstpage
    324
  • Lastpage
    327
  • Abstract
    High on-body channel path gain and the low radio frequency power consumption of a sensor node are of increasing interest for body area network applications. The present paper investigates the desired characteristics of an efficient antenna for such networks and on-body propagation along various body surface phantoms.
  • Keywords
    body area networks; body sensor networks; phantoms; planar antennas; power consumption; WBAN; antenna; body area network applications; body surface phantoms; high on-body channel path gain; human body surface propagation; low radio frequency power consumption; on-body propagation; sensor node; Antenna radiation patterns; Dipole antennas; Gain; Phantoms; Surface waves; body surface waves; on-body antenna; polarization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI 4th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Athens
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MOBIHEALTH.2014.7015976
  • Filename
    7015976