TY - JOUR
T1 - Numerical modelling of human body for Bluetooth body-worn applications
AU - Ur-Rehman, Masood
AU - Abbasi, Qammer Hussain
AU - Chen, Xiaodong
AU - Ying, Zhinong
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The human body has got a pivotal role in portable devices operating in Body-centric Wireless Networks (BCWNs). Electromagnetic interaction between lossy human body tissues and wearable antennas degrades the system performance. Efficient deployment of such systems necessitates thorough understanding of these effects. Numerical analysis is a powerful tool that provides useful information of such scenarios fairly quicker than the actual measurements giving the user full control of the design environment. This paper investigates usefulness of numerical analysis based on the comparison of three different homogeneous models of the human body. Effectiveness of a numerical model is evaluated in terms of its resolution, computational efficiency, time consumption and accuracy of the results in software followed by experimental verifications.
AB - The human body has got a pivotal role in portable devices operating in Body-centric Wireless Networks (BCWNs). Electromagnetic interaction between lossy human body tissues and wearable antennas degrades the system performance. Efficient deployment of such systems necessitates thorough understanding of these effects. Numerical analysis is a powerful tool that provides useful information of such scenarios fairly quicker than the actual measurements giving the user full control of the design environment. This paper investigates usefulness of numerical analysis based on the comparison of three different homogeneous models of the human body. Effectiveness of a numerical model is evaluated in terms of its resolution, computational efficiency, time consumption and accuracy of the results in software followed by experimental verifications.
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U2 - 10.2528/PIER13080403
DO - 10.2528/PIER13080403
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84890253199
SN - 1070-4698
VL - 143
SP - 623
EP - 639
JO - Progress in Electromagnetics Research
JF - Progress in Electromagnetics Research
ER -