Antennas and interaction with the body for body-centric wireless communications at millimeter-waves

Author

Chahat, Nacer ; Leduc, Caroline ; Zhadobov, Maxim ; Sauleau, Ronan

Author_Institution

Inst. d´Electron. et de Telecommun. de Rennes, Univ. de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

772

Lastpage

775

Abstract

This paper briefly reviews recent progress in antenna, propagation, and dosimetry studies for body-centric wireless communications at 60 GHz. First, a millimeter-wave tissue-equivalent phantom useful for antenna measurement, on-body channel characterization, and measurement of power absorption in the skin is introduced. Then, an accurate SAR measurement technique is discussed. Finally, the effect of the human body proximity on performances of off- and on-body antennas is investigated.

Keywords

body area networks; millimetre wave antennas; radio networks; synthetic aperture radar; SAR measurement technique; antenna measurement; antenna progress; body centric wireless communications; dosimetry studies; frequency 60 GHz; millimeter wave tissue equivalent phantom; millimeter waves; onbody channel characterization; power absorption; propagation progress; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Biomedical optical imaging; Heating; Indexes; Phantoms; Power measurement; BAN; SAR measurements; millimeter waves; on-body antennas; phantom; textile antennas; wearable antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546382