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1 Introduction |
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1.1 Frequency band allocation for body area communication |
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2 Diversity and cooperative communications in body area networks |
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2.2 Cooperative on-body communications — illustrations |
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2.3 General overview of cooperative communications |
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2.4 State-of-the-art in BAN literature |
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2.4.1 Co-located spatial diversity in BANs |
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2.4.2 Cooperative diversity |
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2.5 Experimental method, gaining data for studies of cooperative communications |
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2.6 Coded GFSK on-body communications with cooperative diversity |
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2.6.1 System model for coded GFSK CoBANs |
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2.6.2 Performance analysis |
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2.7 Outage analysis, cooperative selection combining and maximum-ratio combining |
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2.8 Implementation of cooperative selection and maximum-ratio combining |
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2.8.1 Single-link fading statistics |
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2.8.2 Performance analysis |
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2.8.3 Analysis of second-order statistics |
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2.9 Cooperative diversity with switched combining |
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2.9.1 Switched combining — implementation |
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2.9.2 Theoretical performance |
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2.9.3 Analysis of outage probability |
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2.9.4 Switching rate analysis |
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2.10 Cooperative switched diversity with power control |
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2.10.1 Transmit power control using "sample-and-hold" prediction |
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2.10.2 First- and second-order statistics |
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2.10.3 Performance analysis |
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3 Ultra wideband radio channel characterisation for body-centric wireless communication |
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3.1 Analysis methodology applied for body-centric radio channel modelling |
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3.2 UWB antennas for body-centric radio propagation measurements |
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3.3 Antenna placement and orientation for UWB on-body radio channel characterisation |
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3.4 Measurement procedure for UWB on-body radio channel characterisation |
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3.5 UWB on-body propagation channel analysis |
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3.5.1 On-body radio channel characterisation for static subjects |
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3.5.2 Transient characterisation of UWB on-body radio channel |
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3.6 UWB off-body radio propagation channel characterisation |
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3.6.1 Antenna placement and measurement procedure |
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3.6.2 PL characterisation |
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3.6.3 Transient characterisation |
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3.7 UWB on-body radio channel characterisation for pseudo-dynamic motion |
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3.7.1 Channel PL variations as a function of link and movements |
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3.7.2 Time-delay and small-scale fading analysis |
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4 Sparse characterization of body-centric radio channels |
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4.2 Basics of sparse non-parametric technique and compressive sensing |
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4.2.1 Sparse non-parametric technique |
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4.2.2 Basics of compressive sensing framework |
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4.3 Results and discussions regarding non-parametric modelling and on-body impulse response estimation |
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4.3.1 Establishing sparse non-parametric propagation models and their evaluation |
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4.3.2 Sparse on-body UWB channel estimation |
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4.4 Statistical learning technique and its application in BWCS |
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4.4.1 Small-sample learning and background |
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4.4.2 Example of support vector regression |
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5 Antenna/human body interactions in the 60 GHz band: state of knowledge and recent advances |
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5.2 Emerging body-centric applications at millimetre waves |
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5.2.1 Heterogeneous mobile networks |
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5.2.2 Body-to-body secured communications |
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5.2.3 Radar-on-chip for gesture and movement recognition |
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5.2.4 e-Health monitoring and medical applications |
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5.3 General features of interaction of millimetre waves with the human body |
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5.3.1 Target organs and tissues |
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5.3.2 EM properties of tissues |
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5.4 Plane wave illumination at the air/skin interface |
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5.4.1 Reflection and transmission |
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5.5 Exposure limits: guidelines and standards |
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5.6 Antennas for body-centric communications |
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5.6.1 On-body communications |
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5.6.2 Off-body communications |
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5.7 Experimental skin-equivalent models |
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5.7.1 Semi-solid phantom: EM model |
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5.7.2 Semi-solid phantom: thermal model |
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5.8 Near-field coupling between antennas and human body |
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5.8.1 Tools for the exposure assessment |
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5.8.2 Impact of the feeding type |
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5.8.4 Electrotextiles for the exposure reduction |
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6 Antennas for ingestible capsule telemetry |
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6.2 Capsule telemetry in medicine and clinical research |
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6.2.2 Wireless telemetry of physiological parameters |
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6.2.3 Animal-implantable wireless telemetry |
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6.3 Biological environment |
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6.4 In-body antenna parameters |
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6.4.3 Radiation efficiency |
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6.4.5 Directivity and gain |
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6.5 Choice of operating frequency |
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6.5.1 Higher-frequency attenuation losses |
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6.5.2 Lower-frequency efficiency and reflection losses |
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6.5.3 Studies on optimal operating frequency |
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6.6 Fundamental limitations of ESAs |
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6.7 Capsule antenna types and overview |
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6.7.2 Planar printed antennas |
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6.7.3 Conformal printed antennas |
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7 In vivo wireless channel modeling |
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7.2 EM modeling of the human body |
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7.3 EM wave propagation through human tissues |
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7.4 Frequency of operation |
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7.5 In vivo antenna design considerations |
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7.6 In vivo EM wave propagation models |
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7.7 In vivo channel characterization |
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7.8 Comparison of in vivo and ex vivo channels |
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8 Diversity and MIMO for efficient front-end design of body-centric wireless communications devices |
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8.2 Receive diversity for body-worn devices |
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8.2.1 Diversity performance analysis |
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8.2.2 Diversity channel characterization and spectral analysis |
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8.2.3 Diversity for interference cancellation |
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8.3 MIMO channels and capacity of on-body channels |
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8.3.2 MIMO for channel capacity |
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8.3.3 Transmit—receive diversity with MIMO |
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8.3.4 MIMO stochastic channel modelling |
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9 On-body antennas and radio channels for GPS applications |
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9.1 GPS antennas in the presence of human body |
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9.1.1 Experimental set-up for on-body antenna performance |
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9.1.2 Effects of varying antenna-body separation |
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9.1.3 Dependency on on-body GPS antenna position |
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9.1.4 Effects of body posture |
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9.2 On-body GPS antennas in real working environment |
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9.2.1 Statistical modelling of GPS multipath environment |
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9.2.2 On-body GPS antennas in multipath environment |
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10 Textile substrate integrated waveguide technology for the next-generation wearable microwave systems |
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10.1 Introduction: the contribution of wearable technology to ubiquitous computing |
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10.2 Conventional wearable antennas |
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10.2.1 On-body considerations |
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10.2.2 Topologies and fabrication methods |
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10.3 Substrate integrated waveguide technology for a new class of wearable microwave components |
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10.3.1 Substrate integrated waveguides: fundamentals |
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10.3.2 SIW techniques and textile materials |
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10.4 Textile substrate integrated waveguide designs |
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10.4.1 Textile SIW cavity-backed slot antennas |
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10.4.2 Half-mode SIW textile antenna |
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10.4.3 Quarter-mode SIW antenna |
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10.4.4 Wideband SIW cavity-backed slot antennas |
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10.4.5 Textile microwave components |
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10.5 Textile SIW antennas as hybrid energy-harvesting platforms |
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10.5.2 Exploiting the textile antenna as integration platform |
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10.5.3 Wideband SIW textile antenna with integrated solar harvester |
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10.5.4 SIW cavity-backed slot antenna with integrated hybrid energy-harvesting hardware |
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11 Ultra wideband body-centric networks for localisation and motion capture applications |
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11.2 Indoor propagation channel and multipath environment |
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11.3.1 Advantages and disadvantages of IR-UWB technology |
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11.3.2 Body-centric UWB localisation applications |
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11.4 UWB body-centric localisation scheme |
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11.4.1 NLOS identification |
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11.4.2 Non-line of sight mitigation |
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11.4.3 TOA data fusion method |
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11.5 BS configurations for UWB localisation |
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11.5.1 Cuboid-shape configuration |
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11.5.2 Y-shape configuration |
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11.5.3 Geometric dilution of precision |
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11.6 Numerical investigation of UWB localisation accuracy |
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11.6.1 Numerical analysis of body-worn antennas |
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11.6.2 Analysis of body-worn antenna localisation |
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11.6.3 Effect of the presence of obstacles near BSs |
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11.7 Body-worn antennas localisation in realistic indoor environment |
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11.7.1 Measurement set-up |
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11.7.2 NLOS identification and mitigation |
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11.7.3 Accuracy and error range analysis |
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11.8 Localisation of body-worn antennas using UWB and optical motion capture system |
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11.8.1 Measurement set-up for upper body localisation |
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11.8.2 Localisation results and analysis |
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12 Down scaling to the nano-scale in body-centric nano-networks |
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12.1 Development of nano-communication |
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12.2 Applications of nano-communication |
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12.3 Available paradigms of nano-communication |
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12.3.1 Molecular communication |
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12.3.2 Acoustic communication |
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12.4 Current study on body-centric nano-networks at THz band |
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12.4.1 Numerical modelling of THz wave propagation in human tissues |
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12.4.2 Effects of non-flat interfaces in human skin tissues on the in vivo THz communication channel |
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13 The road ahead for body-centric wireless communication and networks |
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13.1 Market prospects for body-centric wireless networks |
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13.2 Challenges and future perspective of BCWNs |
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13.2.1 Complex environment |
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13.2.3 Body-to-body communications |
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13.2.5 Antenna design and channel modelling |
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13.2.6 Power consumption and battery life |
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13.2.7 Security and privacy |
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