Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna for WBAN and WLAN Applications

Authors

  • D. Selvaraj  Department of Electronics and Communication Engg., Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai, India
  • D. Arulkumar  Department of Electronics and Communication Engg., Panimalar Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
  • D. Dhinakaran  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Peri Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

Keywords:

Reconfigurable antenna, Wearable antenna, WBAN, WLAN, Microstrip antenna

Abstract

In this paper, a reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna with parasitic arms for controlling the direction of the radiated beam for wireless body area network (WBAN) and wireless local area network (WLAN) is presented. The realized gain of the antenna changes from 1.93dB (off-body mode) to 1.4 dB (on-body) mode. The operating frequency band centered at 2.45 GHz frequency remains unaltered with a bandwidth of 80 MHz.

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2018-04-30

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Volume 4, Issue 5, March-April-2018

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D. Selvaraj, D. Arulkumar, D. Dhinakaran, " Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna for WBAN and WLAN Applications, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 4, Issue 5, pp.727-730, March-April-2018.