TY - GEN
T1 - Ultra wideband off-body radio channel characterisation and modelling for healthcare applications
AU - Khan, Mohammad Monirujjaman
AU - Abbasi, Qammer H.
AU - Alomainy, Akram
AU - Hao, Yang
AU - Parini, Clive
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, the impact of different subject sleeping positions on the ultra wideband (UWB) off-body radio channel is experimentally investigated. Maximum of 15 dB path loss variation is noticed of a channel for different sleeping positions of the subject on the bed at the same location. Results and analysis show that the path loss value is dependent on the different sleeping modes and positions of the subject on the bed, body shadowing, multipath environment and also whether transmit antennas and receive antenna are in relative line of sight or non line of sight conditions.
AB - In this paper, the impact of different subject sleeping positions on the ultra wideband (UWB) off-body radio channel is experimentally investigated. Maximum of 15 dB path loss variation is noticed of a channel for different sleeping positions of the subject on the bed at the same location. Results and analysis show that the path loss value is dependent on the different sleeping modes and positions of the subject on the bed, body shadowing, multipath environment and also whether transmit antennas and receive antenna are in relative line of sight or non line of sight conditions.
KW - Ultra wideband
KW - body-centric wireless communications
KW - line of sight communication
KW - off-body radio channel
KW - path loss
KW - received signal strength indicator (RSSI)
KW - wearable tags
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84866895989
U2 - 10.1109/WTS.2012.6266104
DO - 10.1109/WTS.2012.6266104
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866895989
SN - 9781457705809
T3 - Wireless Telecommunications Symposium
BT - 2012 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2012
T2 - 11th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2012
Y2 - 18 April 2012 through 20 April 2012
ER -