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5G-Enabled E-Textiles Based on a Low-Profile Millimeter-Wave Textile Antenna
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Wagih, Mahmoud Hilton, Geoff S. Weddell, Alex S. Beeby, Steve |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Description | Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are a key application underpinned by advances in electronic textiles (e-textiles). Achieving higher throughput, data-rate, network capacity, and delivering wireless power to miniaturized devices requires WBANs to operate at millimeter-wave 5G+ frequencies. This, however, imposes significant challenges on the antenna design to cope with the additional losses introduced by textile substrates. In this paper, the performance of a novel, high-efficiency, textile-based millimeter-wave antenna is investigated for wireless links with a wearable device. Indoor “real-world” channel gain measurements are used to evaluate the antenna’s performance compared to anechoic gain measurements. Based on the measured channel gain between textile antennas, it is concluded that high-speed wireless links in the 24–30 GHz 5G+ spectrum could be realized with over one meter range using e-textile antennas. |
| Starting Page | 13 |
| DOI | 10.3390/engproc2022015013 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2022-03-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Industrial Engineering Wearable Sensor Antenna Sensor Rf Breathing Sensor Wireless Sensors Textile Sensors Vital Sign Monitoring |
| Content Type | Text |
