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The Personal Area Network (PAN) is a wireless system for signalling
through the body.  In order to make PAN more useful, it is valuable to
know how much data can be realistically tranmitted through a PAN
channel.  The channel capacity of PAN (Personal Area Network) is
highly dependent on geometry and quality of amplification.  The
geometry is modelled as a set of equipotentials, with their capacitive
couplings solved for based on the particular geometry.  The noise
present in PAN is dominated by amplifier noise and external
interference.  Capacitance noise is negligible.  This paper fully
implements and explores models to calculate the signal strength as a
function of geometry and to estimate noise strength and sources.
Resultant calculations of channel capacities are done and directions
for improvement are identified.
