DocumentCode
2695876
Title
Diversity characterization of body-worn textile antenna system at 2.4 GHz
Author
Ouyang, Yuehui ; Chappell, William J.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
fYear
2006
fDate
9-14 July 2006
Firstpage
2117
Lastpage
2120
Abstract
A body-worn textile antenna system which consists of four electrotextile patch antennas is demonstrated in this paper. A series of experiments to characterize the diversity performance of the antenna for indoor multipath environments have been conducted. From these experiments, we show that the proposed wearable antenna configuration delivers an 8-12 dB improvement in signal level in fading that occur 10% of the time, compared to a single antenna in the same environments
Keywords
UHF antennas; diversity reception; indoor communication; microstrip antennas; 2.4 GHz; body-worn textile antenna system; diversity characterization; diversity performance; electrotextile patch antennas; indoor multipath environments; single antenna; wearable antenna configuration; Antenna measurements; Application software; Bandwidth; Fabrics; Humans; Patch antennas; Textiles; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Yarn;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE
Conference_Location
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0123-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/APS.2006.1711001
Filename
1711001
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