TEXTILE ANTENNAS

Indoor off-body wireless communication: static beamforming versus space-time coding

The performance of beamforming versus space-time coding using a body-worn textile antenna array is experimentally evaluated for an indoor environment, where a walking rescue worker transmits data in the 2.45 GHz ISM band, relying on a vertical …

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 …

Channel characterization and robust tracking for diversity reception over time-variant off-body wireless communication channels

In the 2.45 GHz band, indoor wireless off-body data communication by a moving person can be problematic due to time-variant signal fading and the consequent variation in channel parameters. Off-body communication specifically suffers from the …

A wireless off-body communication link with receive diversity

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 …

Application of channel models to indoor off-body wireless MIMO communication with textile antennas

Off-body data communication for firemen 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 the channel fading. By transmitting and receiving …