One of the challenges in body area networks is the communication between different devices or sensors in, on or outside the body. That’s why a good knowledge about the underlying physical principles as well as component realizations and the regulatory framework is very interesting for WiBEC’s interdisciplinary team.

Collaborating with the COST Action "Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and beyond (IRACON)" helped to bring distinguished experts from more than five countries to Dresden. They covered design aspects like EM characteristics of human tissues, emulation of these properties and phantoms for measurement purposes, antenna concepts for on-body and in-body antennas, simulation tools and propagation channel modeling. Moreover, system aspects, international standards and regulation and SAR issues were covered.

During three days, over 40 participants from WiBEC and COST received a holistic view on antennas and propagation modeling for body environment communications and took home many new ideas from the stimulating talks and the inspiring discussions with their peers.