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Title
Japanese:Channel model on various frequency bands for wearable Body Area Network 
English:Channel model on various frequency bands for wearable Body Area Network 
Author
Japanese: 片山典彦, 滝沢賢一, 青柳 貴洋, 高田 潤一, 李還幇, 河野隆二.  
English: Norihiko Katayama, Kenichi Takizawa, Takahiro Aoyagi, Jun-ichi Takada, Huan-Bang LI, Ryuji Kohno.  
Language English 
Journal/Book name
Japanese: 
English:Applied Sciences on Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2008. ISABEL '08. First International Symposium on 
Volume, Number, Page         1-5
Published date Oct. 2008 
Publisher
Japanese: 
English:IEEE 
Conference name
Japanese: 
English:First International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2008) 
Conference site
Japanese: 
English:Aalborg, Denmark 
Abstract Body Area Network (BAN) is considered as a promising technology in supporting medical and healthcare services by combining with various biological sensors. In this paper, we look at wearable BAN, which provides communication links among sensors on body surface. In order to design a BAN that manages biologic information with high efficiency and high reliability, the propagation characteristics of BAN must be thoroughly investigated. As a preliminary effort, we measured the propagation characteristics of BAN at frequency bands of 400MHz, 600MHz, 900MHz, and 2400MHz respectively. Channel models for wearable BAN based on the measurement results were derived. Our results show that the channel models can be described by using a path loss model for all investigated frequency bands.

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