Modeling and analysis of deformations of WBAN antennas

This paper presents the design and modeling of deformations of textile antenna wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. The performance of a compact planar flexible antenna is analyzed in terms of reflection coefficient and radiation pattern under bending and crumpling conditions. Unlike in the existing works, the bending condition in this work carried out in two different axes, x-axis and y-axis respectively to further investigate the performance of the antenna. This antenna which is made fully using textiles is designed for operation in the 2.45 GHz band. It is designed based on typical rectangular line-fed microstrip antenna and investigated under two bending axes.