Whole-body and localized SAR and dose prediction tool for indoor wireless network deployments

Author

Plets, D. ; Joseph, Wout ; Vanhecke, K. ; Vermeeren, Gunter ; Aerts, S. ; Deruyck, M. ; Martens, Luc

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. Dept., iMinds, Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2014

fDate

26-29 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

328

Lastpage

332

Abstract

In this paper, for the first time a tool is presented that allows the prediction of whole-body and localized Specific Absorption Rates (SARs) and absorbed doses for indoor network deployments. As an application, three scenarios are investigated, considering different network topologies for data traffic over WiFi and for phone call traffic over Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). Also, the influence of phone call duration on the total absorbed dose is spatially and globally characterized. SARs and absorbed doses can be lowered when more base stations with a lower transmit power are installed. For the considered scenarios, a reduction by a factor 24 is observed for the downlink SAR in a WiFi deployment, and by a factor 2.4 for the uplink SAR in a UMTS deployment.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; data communication; indoor radio; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; UMTS deployment; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; WiFi deployment; data traffic; dose prediction tool; downlink SAR; indoor wireless network deployments; localized SAR; localized specific absorption rates; network topologies; phone call duration; phone call traffic; uplink SAR; whole-body SAR; whole-body specific absorption rates; 3G mobile communication; Absorption; Base stations; Buildings; Downlink; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Uplink;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications Systems (ISWCS), 2014 11th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWCS.2014.6933371

Filename

6933371