Paper:

M. Jones, T. Martin, Z. Nakad, R. Shenoy, T. Sheikh, D. Lehn, and J.
Edmison, "Analyzing the Use of E-textiles to Improve Application
Performance," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2003, Symposium on
Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks (VTC 2003) (extended
abstract), October 2003.


Abstract:

E-textiles are an alternative to radio-based personal area networks,
with potentially significant advantages in hardware cost and energy
consumption, through a reduction in the number of communication
modules and the energy consumed by data transmission. This paper
presents a methodology based on simulation and physical
experimentation for quantifying this savings on a large e-textile that
determines the bearing/location of one or more distant audible
targets.