TY - GEN
T1 - Investigation of body shape variations effect on the Ultra-Wideband on-body radio propagation channel
AU - Khan, Mohammad Monirujjaman
AU - Abbasi, Qammer H.
AU - Alomainy, Akram
AU - Hao, Yang
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In this paper Ultra Wideband (UWB) on-body radio propagation study is performed by characterizing the path loss for five different real human subjects of different sizes and gender in an indoor environment using UWB active tags provided by Time Domain PLUS. The tags operate at the frequency band of 5.97.2 GHz. Thirty four different transmitter locations on the front part of the body are considered for calculating path loss. Results showed that maximum of 29.83 % variation in path loss exponent is noticed for different body size and path loss exponent is generally increased with the body size.
AB - In this paper Ultra Wideband (UWB) on-body radio propagation study is performed by characterizing the path loss for five different real human subjects of different sizes and gender in an indoor environment using UWB active tags provided by Time Domain PLUS. The tags operate at the frequency band of 5.97.2 GHz. Thirty four different transmitter locations on the front part of the body are considered for calculating path loss. Results showed that maximum of 29.83 % variation in path loss exponent is noticed for different body size and path loss exponent is generally increased with the body size.
KW - Ultra wideband
KW - body-centric wireless communications
KW - line of sight communication
KW - on-body radio channel
KW - path loss
KW - received signal strength indicator (RSSI)
KW - wearable tags
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80155145313
U2 - 10.1109/ICEAA.2011.6046508
DO - 10.1109/ICEAA.2011.6046508
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80155145313
SN - 9781612849782
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA'11
SP - 1128
EP - 1131
BT - Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA'11
T2 - 2011 13th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA'11
Y2 - 12 September 2011 through 16 September 2011
ER -