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International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 350797, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/350797
Design of a Dual-Band On-Body Antenna for a Wireless Body Area Network Repeater System
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea
Received 17 July 2012; Accepted 28 September 2012
Academic Editor: Z. N. Chen
Copyright © 2012 Kyeol Kwon et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A dual-band on-body antenna for a wireless body area network repeater system is proposed. The designed dual-band antenna has the maximum radiation directed toward the inside of the human body in the medical implantable communication service (MICS) band in order to collect vital information from the human body and directed toward the outside in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band to transmit that information to a monitoring system. In addition, the return loss property of the antenna is insensitive to human body effects by utilizing the epsilon negative zeroth-order resonance property.