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Design of a finger ring antenna for wireless sensor networks

  • Waqas Farooq
    ,
  • Masood Ur-Rehman
    ,
  • Qammer Hussain Abbasi
    ,
  • Xiaodong Yang
    ,
  • Khalid Qaraqe
  • University of Bedfordshire
    ,
  • Texas A&M University at Qatar
    ,
  • Xidian University
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Abstract

Body-centric communications have become very active area of research due to ever-growing demand of portability. Advanced applications such as; health monitoring, tele-medicine, identification systems, performance monitoring of athletes, defence systems and personal entertainment are adding to its popularity. In this paper, a novel wearable antenna radiating at 5 GHz for the body-centric wireless sensor networks has been presented. The antenna consists of a conventional microstrip patch mounted on a gold base and could be worn in a finger like a ring. CST Microwave Studio is used for modelling, simulation and optimisation of the antenna. The simulated results show that the proposed antenna has a -10 dB bandwidth of 90.3 MHz with peak gain of 6.9 dBi. Good performance in terms of bandwidth, directivity, gain, return loss and radiation characteristics, along with a miniaturised form factor makes it a very well suited candidate for the body-worn wireless sensor applications.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 02/06/2016

Publication status

Published - 02/06/2016

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9788890701863

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624276
  • Scopus: 84979220542

Host publication title

2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)

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