Numerical analysis of on-body channel for statistically-generated body shapes

@article{Ali2011NumericalAO,
  title={Numerical analysis of on-body channel for statistically-generated body shapes},
  author={Khaleda Ali and Alessio Brizzi and Su-Lin Lee and Yang Hao and Akram Alomainy and Guang-Zhong Yang},
  journal={2011 Loughborough Antennas \& Propagation Conference},
  year={2011},
  pages={1-4},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:23366241}
}
RF simulation is performed on shapes generated from a range of subjects, and the results from FDTD simulations at 2.4 GHz are presented, suggesting the practical value of the model.
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