On-Body Propagation at 60 GHz

Author

Chahat, Nacer ; Valerio, Guido ; Zhadobov, Maxim ; Sauleau, Ronan

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. & Telecommun. of Rennes (IETR), Univ. of Rennes 1, Rennes, France

Volume

61

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

4/1/2013 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1876

Lastpage

1888

Abstract

The on-body propagation at 60 GHz is studied analytically, numerically and experimentally using a skin-equivalent phantom. First, to provide analytical-based fundamental models of path gain, the theory of propagating waves near a flat phantom is studied by considering vertical and horizontal elementary dipoles. The analytical models are in excellent agreement with full-wave simulations. For a vertically polarized wave, a minimum power decay exponent of 3.5 is found. Then, propagation on the body is investigated experimentally in vertical and horizontal polarizations using two linearly-polarized open-ended waveguides. The analytical models fit very well with the measurements. Furthermore, the effect of polarization on the antenna performance is studied numerically and experimentally.

Keywords

dipole antennas; polarisation; wave propagation; waveguide antennas; antenna performance; elementary dipoles; flat phantom; frequency 60 GHz; full-wave simulations; linearly-polarized open-ended waveguides; on-body propagation; polarizations; propagating waves theory; skin-equivalent phantom; Antennas; Optical fibers; Permittivity; Phantoms; Skin; Surface waves; Body area networks (BAN); body-centric wireless communications; millimeter waves; on-body propagation; skin-equivalent phantoms;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2013.2242034

Filename

6416928