TY - GEN
T1 - Ultra wideband antenna diversity techniques for on/off-body radio channel characterisation
AU - Abbasi, Qammer H.
AU - Alomainy, Akram
AU - Hao, Yang
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Diversity is powerful tool for combat fading. This paper presents experimental investigations and comparison of ultra wideband antenna diversity technique for on-body and off-body radio propagation channels. Diversity gain (DG) is calculated for five different channels namely: Access point (AP)/belt-to-head, AP/belt-to-chest, AP/belt-to-wrist, AP/belt-to-ankle and AP/belt-to-back with the subject performing realistic movements of different nature in an indoor environment. Results showed that almost 50% improvement in DG is obtained for off-body case as compared to on-body case, which shows the usefulness of UWB off-body diversity for body centric wireless communications.
AB - Diversity is powerful tool for combat fading. This paper presents experimental investigations and comparison of ultra wideband antenna diversity technique for on-body and off-body radio propagation channels. Diversity gain (DG) is calculated for five different channels namely: Access point (AP)/belt-to-head, AP/belt-to-chest, AP/belt-to-wrist, AP/belt-to-ankle and AP/belt-to-back with the subject performing realistic movements of different nature in an indoor environment. Results showed that almost 50% improvement in DG is obtained for off-body case as compared to on-body case, which shows the usefulness of UWB off-body diversity for body centric wireless communications.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84860701929
U2 - 10.1109/IWAT.2012.6178649
DO - 10.1109/IWAT.2012.6178649
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860701929
SN - 9781467300360
T3 - 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology, iWAT 2012
SP - 209
EP - 212
BT - 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology, iWAT 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology, iWAT 2012
Y2 - 5 March 2012 through 7 March 2012
ER -