Low-profile, compact and easily integrated body worn antennas are the essence of efficient, reliable and user-friendly body-centric networks. The paper presents different planar printed ultra wideband (UWB) antennas and their applications as part of on-body communication systems. Both frequency and time domain characteristics of the proposed antennas are investigated and analysed. The paper emp...

In this paper methodology to exploit creeping wave for body area network BAN communication reliability are described. Creeping wave propagation effects are visualized & analyzed. During this work Dipole, IA antennas various antennas were redesigned using existing designs and their propagation characteristics were verified for optimum performance when used on BANs. These antennas were then appli...

Wirelessly interconnected nanorobots, i.e., engineered devices of sizes ranging from one to a few hundred nanometers, are promising revolutionary diagnostic and therapeutic medical applications that could enhance the treatment of major diseases. Each nanorobot is usually designed to perform a set of basic tasks such as sensing and actuation. A dense wireless network of nano-devices, i.e., a nan...

This paper investigates the performance of cooperative receive diversity, for the wireless body area network (WBAN) radio channel, compliant with the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard, in the case of monitoring a sleeping person. Extensive WBAN measurements near the 2.4 GHz ISM band were used. Up to 7 dB and 20% improvement for two-hop communications with the use of relays are empirically demonstrated wit...

Body Centric Wireless Communication (BCWC) has been topic of much research in recent years. In this manuscript, a novel low-cost microstrip patch antenna is designed for on-/off-body communication with a dual-band operation. The proposed structure exhibits a monopole-like radiation pattern at 2.45 GHz and a broadside radiation at 4.8 GHz, simultaneously. Lateral dimensions of 42 mm × 46 mm and ...

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A flexible circularly polarized (CP) wearable antenna is proposed for a wireless body area network at the 5.8-GHz industrial, scientific, and medical band. The made of polyimide foam material. CP radiation enabled by loading two pairs shorting pins on rectangular patch antenna. 3-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth doubled adding inverted L-shaped parasitic stubs both sides For validation, with dimen...

A wearable dual-port button antenna that excites pattern-diversity dual-polarized waves is proposed for on-/off-body applications. Its simple structure comprises of two radiators and a common ground plane designed into substrates. The crossed-dipole radiator made by symmetric bowtie dipoles printed on circular-shaped semi-rigid substrate, which covers an ultra-wideband (UWB) application with ci...