Wide band e-shape wearable antenna for wireless body area network

In this paper, we present a wideband planar e-shape textile antenna and study its performance numerically and experimentally. The textile material and the radiation patch shape provide the antenna a wide working band (2.25ghz-2.75ghz). A digital human model is established to numerically analyze the affect of human body on antenna. Experiments are carried out to study the performance of antenna on human body, The simulated and measured results in free space and on human chest show good agreement with each other. the wideband planar e-shape textile antenna is suitable for body-centric wireless communications with high quality.