Compact Microstrip-Based Textile Antenna for 802.15.6 WBAN-UWB with Full Ground Plane

Table 5

Comparison of the proposed antenna with available UWB antennas in literature.

Ref no.	Antenna topology	Operating frequency (GHz)	Targeted operating UWB band	Notching property	Overall size in (lowest operating frequency)	Ground plane (GP)	Bandwidth enhancement techniques
[14]	Microstrip	3.6–10.3	FCC	None		Full GP	Multiresonance, slots and parasitic element
[27]	Printed microstrip	4–9.5	FCC	None		Full GP	Multiresonance, slots and parasitic element
[28]	Three-layered antenna	3.18–11	FCC	None		Full GP	Multi- (three) stacking layers
[29]	Antenna with partial ground plane	2.7–19.5	FCC	None		Partial and slotted GP	Partial and slotted ground plane, slots
[30]	CPW fed—tapered	3–5.1, 5.35–12	FCC with single notch	Single notch to reject 5 GHz WLAN band		NA	Vivadi structure
Proposed antenna	Microstrip	3.9–4.2, 6.5–9.9	IEEE WBAN-UWB	Single notch to reject 5 GHz WLAN band		Full GP	Multiresonance and active coupling