Hybridizing CBFM and ray tracing for on-body propagation

Author

De Gregorio, Massimo ; Usai, P. ; Tiberi, G. ; Monorchio, Agostino ; Brizzi, Alessio ; Pellegrini, Alessandro ; Hao, Yuwen

Author_Institution

Microwave & Radiat. Lab., Univ. di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

1660

Lastpage

1661

Abstract

An extension of the Characteristic Basis Function Method (CBFM) for handling radiating problems involving structures with apertures (slots) is hybridized with a ray tracing based solver to characterize the propagation between a transmitting waveguide antenna and a generic receiver operating at 94 GHz, located in proximity of a human body. Specifically, CBFM is used to estimate the radiation pattern of the transmitter, which provides the radiation pattern model to be employed in the ray tracing solver.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; aperture antennas; electric fields; millimetre wave antennas; millimetre wave propagation; ray tracing; waveguide antennas; CBFM; apertures; characteristic basis function method; frequency 94 GHz; generic receiver; human body; onbody propagation; radiation pattern model; ray tracing based solver; slots; transmitter; transmitting waveguide antenna; Antenna radiation patterns; Aperture antennas; Flanges; Ray tracing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6711489

Filename

6711489