Propagation along a Human Body Surface in WBAN; Remarks of Desirable Antenna Characteristics

Markus Berg; Tommi Tuovinen

4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"

Research Article

Propagation along a Human Body Surface in WBAN; Remarks of Desirable Antenna Characteristics

Download648 downloads

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257362,
    author={Markus Berg and Tommi Tuovinen},
    title={Propagation along a Human Body Surface in WBAN; Remarks of Desirable Antenna Characteristics},
    proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH},
    year={2014},
    month={12},
    keywords={body surface waves on-body antenna polarization},
    doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257362}
}

Markus Berg
Tommi Tuovinen
Year: 2014
Propagation along a Human Body Surface in WBAN; Remarks of Desirable Antenna Characteristics
MOBIHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257362

Markus Berg¹^,*, Tommi Tuovinen¹

1: CWC, University of Oulu

*Contact email: markus.berg@ee.oulu.fi

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 surface waves on-body antenna polarization

Published: 2014-12-05
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257362