On-body radio channel performance of a small printed quasi-self-complementary ultra wideband antenna

Abstract

The on-body radio channel performance of a small printed quasi-self-complementary ultra wideband (UWB) antenna is investigated in this paper. Measurement campaigns are performed in the chamber and in an indoor environment. The path loss was modeled as a function of distance for 34 different receiver locations for propagation along the front part of the body. A reduction of 16.34% path loss exponent is noticed in case of indoor environment as compared to anechoic chamber. In addition, the path loss has been characterized for eight different on-body radio channels. The proposed antenna shows very good on-body radio channel performance.

Design and Analysis of a Compact UWB Band Notch Antenna for Wireless Communication

“…This antenna will be fabricated and the performance will be measured and compared with the simulation results. CST software is very user friendly and it has been noticed for other articles cases [7][8][9][10] that the simulated results are comparable to the measured results. Parametric study of this antenna will be carried out and it will be designed also on the textile substrate to see the usability of this antenna for wearable applications.…”

“…A good antenna design gives flexibility to system designers. There is tremendous growing interest and research regarding the design of UWB antennas recently [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. In [6][7][8][9][10][11], UWB antenna design and radio channel modeling for wireless communication have been presented.…”

“…There is tremendous growing interest and research regarding the design of UWB antennas recently [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. In [6][7][8][9][10][11], UWB antenna design and radio channel modeling for wireless communication have been presented. Ultra-wideband band north antenna has been presented in open literature in [12][13][14][15].…”

Novel and Compact Ultra-Wideband Wearable Band-Notch Antenna Design for Body Sensor Networks and Mobile Healthcare System

“…Recently, there has been tremendous growing research and interest realized for the design of UWB wearable antennas [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. UWB antenna design and radio channel modeling for WBANs have been presented in [3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Ultra-wideband band north antenna has been pretend in open literature in [12][13][14][15].…”