The human body and millimeter-wave wireless communication systems: Interactions and implications

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 2015-September, Issue , 2015, Pages 2423-2429

  Wu, Ting ^a   Rappaport, Theodore S ^a,b   Collins, Christopher M ^a,b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

body area networks (BAN); health effects; millimeter wave; mmWave heating; radiation; RF exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953711014     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2015.7248688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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