Output details
13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
Queen's University Belfast
Article title
An antennas and propagation approach to improving physical layer performance in wireless body area networks
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Article number
4740883
Volume number
27
Issue number
1
First page of article
27
ISSN of journal
0733-8716
Year of publication
2009
URL
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Number of additional authors
2
Additional information
This paper introduced the world's first specifically designed wearable antenna structure for on-body communications. The new antenna concept features enhanced surface wave propagation to give superior on-body performance and UWB bandwidths (24%). The paper also demonstrates that even a two-branch diversity system would offer significant performance advantage in practical situations (e.g. for professional first-responder type application). The work described in this paper led to the invitation to be the keynote speaker at 5th Intl. Conf. Body Area Networks (Bodynets) 2010.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
B - Digital Communications (Digi Comms)
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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