Advances in body-centric wireless communication : applications and state-of-the-art / edited by Qammer H. Abbasi [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abbasi, Qammer H., editor.

Series:

Telecommunications

Telecommunications Series ; 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks.

Radio--Receivers and reception.

Radio.

Telecommunication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stevenage, England : The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2016.

Summary:

This book brings together contributions from a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the field of wireless and mobile communications, signal processing and medical measurements, to present the underlying theory, implementation challenges and applications of this exciting new technology.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Diversity and cooperative communications in body area networks; 3. Ultra wideband radio channel characterisation for body-centric wireless communication; 4. Sparse characterization of body-centric radio channels; 5. Antenna/human body interactions in the 60 GHz band: state of knowledge and recent advances; 6. Antennas for ingestible capsule telemetry; 7. In vivo wireless channel modeling; 8. Diversity and MIMO for efficient front-end design of body-centric wireless communications devices

9. On-body antennas and radio channels for GPS applications10. Textile substrate integrated waveguide technology for the next-generation wearable microwave systems; 11. Ultra wideband body-centric networks for localisation and motion capture applications; 12. Down scaling to the nano-scale in body-centric nano-networks; 13. The road ahead for body-centric wireless communication and networks; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 4, 2016).

ISBN:

1-5231-0362-0

1-84919-990-6