Abstract
Antennas and the propagation characteristics for body-area networks have become an active area of research. In this paper, a cavity slot antenna is proposed for onbody communications at 2.45 GHz. First, the antenna characteristics (input impedance, radiation pattern, and efficiency) are calculated by the finite-difference time-domain method. The results show that the proposed antenna has a relatively high efficiency of more than 50% even in the vicinity of the human body. Next, the onbody radio wave-propagation characteristics are investigated through numerical simulation and experimental measurements of the electric-field distributions around a phantom with a simplified shape of a human arm. Both sets of results are then compared and discussed. Finally, good agreement between the measured and the calculated results is confirmed.
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