Body centric wireless networking and communications is an emerging 4G
technology for short (1-5 m) and very short (below 1 m) range
communications systems, used to connect devices worn on (or in) the
body, or between two people in close proximity. It has great potential
for applications in healthcare delivery, entertainment, surveillance,
and emergency services. This book brings together contributions from a
multidisciplinary team of researchers in the field of wireless and
mobile communications, signal processing and medical measurements to
present the underlying theory, implementation challenges and
applications of this exciting new technology.
Topics covered include: diversity and cooperative communications in body
area networks; ultra wideband radio channel characterisation for
body-centric wireless communication; sparse characterisation of
body-centric radio channels; antenna / human body interactions in the 60
GHz band; antennas for ingestible capsule telemetry; in vivo wireless
channel modelling; diversity and MIMO for efficient front-end design of
body-centric wireless communications devices; on-body antennas and radio
channels for GPS applications; textile substrate integrated waveguide
technology for the next-generation wearable microwave systems; ultra
wideband body-centric networks for localisation and motion capture
application; down scaling to the nano-scale in body-centric
nano-networks; and the road ahead for body-centric wireless
communication and networks.
