Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications Systems (ISWCS), 2014 11th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
DOI :
10.1109/ISWCS.2014.6933371
