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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Flexible UWB and MIMO Antennas for Wireless Body Area Network: A Review.

Vikash Kumar Jhunjhunwala, Tanweer Ali, Pramod Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Sakshi Shrivastava, Arnav Abhijit Bhagwat

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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7 authors.

Vikash Kumar JhunjhunwalaDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India.
Tanweer AliDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1959-0480
Pramod KumarDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India.ORCID 0000-0003-0321-7187
Praveen KumarDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1474-0689
Pradeep KumarDiscipline of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-6317-912X
Sakshi ShrivastavaDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India.
Arnav Abhijit BhagwatDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the field of wireless communication for designing a monitoring system to observe the activity of the human body remotely. With the use of wireless body area networks (WBAN), chronic health and physical activity may be tracked without interfering with routine lifestyle. This crucial real-time data transmission requires low power, high speed, and broader bandwidth communication. Ultrawideband (UWB) technology has been explored for short-range and high-speed applications to cater to these demands over the last decades. The antenna is a crucial component of the WBAN system, which lowers the overall system's performance. The human body's morphology necessitates a flexible antenna. In this article, we comprehensively survey the relevant flexible materials and their qualities utilized to develop the flexible antenna. Further, we retrospectively investigate the design issues and the strategies employed in designing the flexible UWB antenna, such as incorporating the modified ground layer, including the parasitic elements, coplanar waveguide, metamaterial loading, etc. To improve isolation and channel capacity in WBAN applications, the most recent decoupling structures proven in UWB MIMO technology are presented.

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Wireless TechnologyHumansMonitoring, PhysiologicRetrospective Studiesflexible antennasimplanted devicemultiple input multiple output (MIMO)specific absorption rate (SAR)

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PMID36502257
PMCPMC9737792

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