ABSTRACT
With the increasing interest in implantable and wearable technologies for healthcare, diagnosis and health supports by means of wireless connectivity, people are entering in a new era of communications. The wireless body area network (WBAN) is a wireless network technology with purpose to transmit data by implantable or wearable devices to the point of needs. This chapter provides an overview of the last advances in research on WBANs, carried out in the framework of IC1004 action, and proposes a radio CM whose parameters. Antennas have an important role in the wireless communication and in particular in WBANs, where small ANTs are required that allows integration into WBAN devices. An efficient ANT is a primary requirement for reliable medical implanted communication. The chapter presents the results obainted in terms of channel characterisation and modelling for on-body communications. Several measurement campaings were carried out in different bands.
