Performance of antennas in the on-body environment

This paper presents the performance of antenna combinations for on body communications. Several different antennas have been designed and built such as monopole antennas, patch antenna, loop antenna, patch and patch array antennas. These antennas were designed for the operation in the unlicensed ISM...

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Main Authors: Kamarudin, Muhammad Ramlee, Nechayev, Yuriy I., Hall, Peter S.
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Published: Elsevier 2005
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APS.2005.1552290
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spelling my.utm.123982017-10-02T07:16:20Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12398/ Performance of antennas in the on-body environment Kamarudin, Muhammad Ramlee Nechayev, Yuriy I. Hall, Peter S. TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This paper presents the performance of antenna combinations for on body communications. Several different antennas have been designed and built such as monopole antennas, patch antenna, loop antenna, patch and patch array antennas. These antennas were designed for the operation in the unlicensed ISM band, 2.45 GHz. The antennas then were tested in the on body environment. The performance of the antenna combinations are determined by measuring the path gain between two on-body paths for a range of body postures. Measurement results show that the combination of monopole antennas performs best in most of the measurement cases compared to other combinations. The comparison between calculation and measurement results, which are considering the free space loss and antenna gain give results that, are within 10dB of measurements for most body postures. Elsevier 2005 Book Section PeerReviewed Kamarudin, Muhammad Ramlee and Nechayev, Yuriy I. and Hall, Peter S. (2005) Performance of antennas in the on-body environment. In: AP-S International Symposium (Digest) (IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society). Elsevier, New York, pp. 475-478. ISBN 978-078038883-3 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APS.2005.1552290 DOI:10.1109/APS.2005.1552290
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Kamarudin, Muhammad Ramlee
Nechayev, Yuriy I.
Hall, Peter S.
Performance of antennas in the on-body environment
description This paper presents the performance of antenna combinations for on body communications. Several different antennas have been designed and built such as monopole antennas, patch antenna, loop antenna, patch and patch array antennas. These antennas were designed for the operation in the unlicensed ISM band, 2.45 GHz. The antennas then were tested in the on body environment. The performance of the antenna combinations are determined by measuring the path gain between two on-body paths for a range of body postures. Measurement results show that the combination of monopole antennas performs best in most of the measurement cases compared to other combinations. The comparison between calculation and measurement results, which are considering the free space loss and antenna gain give results that, are within 10dB of measurements for most body postures.
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author Kamarudin, Muhammad Ramlee
Nechayev, Yuriy I.
Hall, Peter S.
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Nechayev, Yuriy I.
Hall, Peter S.
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title Performance of antennas in the on-body environment
title_short Performance of antennas in the on-body environment
title_full Performance of antennas in the on-body environment
title_fullStr Performance of antennas in the on-body environment
title_full_unstemmed Performance of antennas in the on-body environment
title_sort performance of antennas in the on-body environment
publisher Elsevier
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url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12398/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APS.2005.1552290
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