Wireless body area networks: A survey

S Movassaghi, M Abolhasan, J Lipman… - … surveys & tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent developments and technological advancements in wireless communication,
MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) technology and integrated circuits has enabled …

A comprehensive survey of wireless body area networks: On PHY, MAC, and network layers solutions

S Ullah, H Higgins, B Braem, B Latre, C Blondia… - Journal of medical …, 2012 - Springer
Recent advances in microelectronics and integrated circuits, system-on-chip design,
wireless communication and intelligent low-power sensors have allowed the realization of a …

Antennas and propagation for on-body communication systems

PS Hall, Y Hao, YI Nechayev… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-body communication channels are of increasing interest for a number of applications,
such as medical-sensor networks, emergency-service workers, and personal …

Antennas and propagation for body centric communications

PS Hall, Y Hao - 2006 First European Conference on Antennas …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Body centric wireless communication is now accepted as an important part of 4th generation
(and beyond) mobile communications systems, taking the form of human to human …

Statistical analysis and performance evaluation for on-body radio propagation with microstrip patch antennas

A Alomainy, Y Hao, A Owadally… - … on Antennas and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-body propagation channel measurements using two microstrip patch antennas for
various links are presented and statistically analyzed. The attenuation attributed to factors …

Covert dual-band wearable button antenna

B Sanz-Izquierdo, F Huang, JC Batchelor - Electronics Letters, 2006 - IET
A novel dual-band antenna for wearable WLAN computing applications is introduced. This
antenna comprises three discs and a coaxial post. Its appearance is of a standard metal …

Dual-band wearable metallic button antennas and transmission in body area networks

B Sanz-Izquierdo, JA Miller, JC Batchelor… - IET microwaves, antennas …, 2010 - IET
A dual-band metallic antenna with the appearance of a button on a pair of jeans for use with
wearable computer networks, emergency rescue scenarios and future wireless medical …

Diversity performance analysis for on-body communication channels at 2.45 GHz

I Khan, PS Hall, AA Serra, AR Guraliuc… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Body-centric communications is an important part of fourth-generation personal
communications systems. Like the mobile cellular communication channel, on-body …

Dual‐band on‐body repeater antenna for in‐on‐on WBAN applications

J Tak, K Kwon, S Kim, J Choi - International Journal of Antennas …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A dual‐band on‐body repeater antenna for in‐on‐on wireless body area network
applications is proposed. The proposed antenna has a maximum radiation normal to the …

Small size wearable button antenna

B Sanz-Izquierdo, F Huang… - 2006 First European …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel small size wearable antenna for WLAN applications is proposed in this paper. The
antenna structure is based on a previous development and achieves lower size by …