Off-body antenna wireless performance evaluation in a residential environment

Sema Dumanli; Lawrence Sayer; Evangelos Mellios; Xenofon Fafoutis; Geoffrey Hilton; Ian Craddock

doi:10.1109/TAP.2017.2748362

Off-body antenna wireless performance evaluation in a residential environment

Sema Dumanli, Lawrence Sayer, Evangelos Mellios, Xenofon Fafoutis, Geoffrey Hilton, Ian Craddock

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Abstract

Modern body-centric communication systems require good link quality. Antenna performance is of primary importance when meeting this requirement. This paper contributes a method suited to the difficult task of quantifying antenna performance in a body-centric communications system. In a case study, a planar wrist wearable antenna, which provides radiation pattern switching across the 2.4GHz operating band through an innovative technique that does not require an additional switching mechanism, is benchmarked against a monopole and a patch antenna in a residential setting. The performance of the antenna, and subsequently the benefits of the pattern switching technique, are successfully quantified. The holistic method includes both antenna measurements and channel simulation with ray-tracing. Results are verified against real world measurements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6076-6084
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume	65
Issue number	11
Early online date	1 Sept 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2017.2748362
Publication status	Published - Nov 2017

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Keywords

Antenna radiation patterns
Bluetooth low energy
Body sensor networks
Microstrip antennas
Internet of Things
Indoor communication
Body-centric communications
Digital Health

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Craddock, I. J. (Principal Investigator), Coyle, D. T. (Principal Investigator), Flach, P. A. (Principal Investigator), Kaleshi, D. (Principal Investigator), Mirmehdi, M. (Principal Investigator), Piechocki, R. J. (Principal Investigator), Stark, B. H. (Principal Investigator), Ascione, R. (Co-Principal Investigator), Ashburn, A. M. (Collaborator), Burnett, M. E. (Collaborator), Damen, D. (Co-Principal Investigator), Gooberman-Hill, R. (Principal Investigator), Harwin, W. S. (Collaborator), Hilton, G. (Co-Principal Investigator), Holderbaum, W. (Collaborator), Holley, A. P. (Manager), Manchester, V. A. (Administrator), Meller, B. J. (Other ), Stack, E. (Collaborator) & Gilchrist, I. D. (Principal Investigator)
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Off-body antenna wireless performance evaluation in a residential environment

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