Body-centric

Indoor off-body wireless MIMO communication with dual polarized textile antennas

Off-body data communication for firefighters and other rescue workers is an important area of development. The communication with a moving person in an indoor environment can be very unreliable due to channel fading. In addition, when considering …

Dynamic link performance analysis of a rescue worker's off-body communication system using integrated textile antennas

The performance of wireless data communication for fully equipped firemen walking indoors and communicating through textile patch antennas integrated into their clothing is evaluated. The small-scale fading experienced in the building is …