"Version: 20220601"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Theory of wireless wearable communication systems -- 1.1. Wireless wearable communication systems : frequency range -- 1.2. Free space propagation -- 1.3. Electromagnetic transmission, Friis formula -- 1.4. Wearable communication channel budget -- 1.5. Noise -- 1.6. Communication systems channel budget calculation -- 1.7. Communication system path loss -- 1.8. Receiver sensitivity -- 1.9. Definitions and characteristics of receiving channel -- 1.10. Basic features of radars -- 1.11. Communication systems transmitters--definitions and features -- 1.12. Introduction to wearable communication and IOT systems basics -- 1.13. Internet of things IoT basics -- 1.14. Satellite communication transceiver -- 1.15. Conclusions

2. Wearable communication technology for medical and sport applications -- 2.1. Wearable technology -- 2.2. Wearable medical systems -- 2.3. Physiological parameters measured by wearable medical systems -- 2.4. Wearable body-area networks (WBANs) -- 2.5. Wearable wireless body-area network (WWBAN) -- 2.6. Conclusions

3. Electromagnetic waves and transmission lines for wearable communication systems -- 3.1. Electromagnetic spectrum -- 3.2. Basic electromagnetic wave definitions -- 3.3. Electromagnetic waves theory -- 3.4. Wave propagation through the human body -- 3.5. Materials -- 3.6. Transmission lines theory -- 3.7. Matching techniques -- 3.8. Coaxial transmission line -- 3.9. Microstrip line -- 3.10. Waveguides -- 3.11. Circular waveguide

4. Microwave technologies for wearable communication systems -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. MIC--microwave integrated circuit -- 4.3. Low noise K band compact receiving channel for a satellite communication ground terminal -- 4.4. MMICs--monolithic microwave integrated circuits -- 4.5. 18-40 GHz front end -- 4.6. MEMS technology -- 4.7. W band MEMS detection array -- 4.8. MEMS bow-tie dipole with a bolometer -- 4.9. LTCC and HTCC technology -- 4.10. Conclusions

5. RF components and module design for wearable communication systems -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Passive elements -- 5.3. Power dividers and combiners -- 5.4. RF amplifiers -- 5.5. Linearity of RF amplifiers, active devices -- 5.6. Wideband phased array direction finding system -- 5.7. Conclusions

6. System engineering of body-area networks, BAN communication systems -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Cloud storage and computing services for wearable body-area networks -- 6.3. Wireless body area networks (WBANs) systems and applications -- 6.4. Wearable wireless body area network (WWBAN) systems and applications -- 6.5. Systems engineering methodology for wearable medical systems -- 6.6. System engineering tools for the development of wearable medical systems -- 6.7. ICDM--integrated, customer-driven, conceptual design method -- 6.8. 434 MHz receiving channel for communication and medical systems -- 6.9. Conclusions

7. Wearable antennas for wireless communication systems -- 7.1. Introduction to antennas -- 7.2. Antenna definitions -- 7.3. Dipole antenna -- 7.4. Monopole antenna for wearable communication systems -- 7.5. Loop antennas for wireless communication systems -- 7.6. Wearable printed antennas -- 7.7. Two-layer wearable stacked microstrip antennas -- 7.8. Stacked mono-pulse Ku band patch antenna -- 7.9. Wearable loop antennas -- 7.10. Planar wearable inverted-F antenna (PIFA) -- 7.11. Conclusions

8. Wideband wearable antennas for communication and medical applications -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Printed wearable dual polarized dipole antennas -- 8.3. Printed wearable loop antenna -- 8.4. Compact dual polarized wearable antennas -- 8.5. Conclusions

9. Analysis and measurements of wearable antennas in the vicinity of the human body -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Analysis of wearable antennas -- 9.3. Design of wearable antennas in the vicinity of the human body -- 9.4. Wearable antenna arrays -- 9.5. Small wide band dual polarized wearable printed antennas -- 9.6. Wearable helix antenna's performance on the human body -- 9.7. Wearable antenna measurements in the vicinity of the human body -- 9.8. Phantom configuration -- 9.9. Measurements of wearable antennas using a phantom -- 9.10. Measurement results of wearable antennas -- 9.11. Conclusions

10. Wearable RFID technology and antennas -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. RFID technology -- 10.3. RFID standards -- 10.4. Dual polarized 13.5 MHz compact printed antenna -- 10.5. Varying the antenna feed network -- 10.6. Wearable loop antennas for RFID applications -- 10.7. Proposed antenna applications -- 10.8. Conclusions

11. Novel wearable printed antennas for wireless communication and medical systems -- 11.1. Wideband wearable metamaterial antennas for wireless communication applications -- 11.2. Stacked patch antenna loaded with SRR -- 11.3. Patch antenna loaded with split ring resonators -- 11.4. Metamaterial antenna characteristics in the vicinity of the human body -- 11.5. Metamaterial wearable antennas -- 11.6. Wideband stacked patch with SRR -- 11.7. Fractal printed antennas -- 11.8. Anti-radar fractals and/or multilevel chaff dispersers -- 11.9. Definition of a multilevel fractal structure -- 11.10. Advanced antenna system -- 11.11. Applications of fractal printed antennas -- 11.12. Conclusion

12. Active wearable printed antennas for medical applications -- 12.1. Tunable printed antennas -- 12.2. Varactors : theory -- 12.3. Dually polarized tunable printed antenna -- 12.4. Wearable tunable antennas -- 12.5. Varactors : electrical characteristics -- 12.6. Measurements of wearable tunable antennas -- 12.7. Folded wearable dual polarized tunable antenna -- 12.8. Medical applications for wearable tunable antennas -- 12.9. Active wearable antennas -- 12.10. Active transmitting antenna -- 12.11. Conclusions

13. New wideband passive and active wearable slot and notch antennas for wireless and medical communication systems -- 13.1. Slot antennas -- 13.2. Slot radiation pattern -- 13.3. Slot antenna impedance -- 13.4. A wideband wearable printed slot antenna -- 13.5. A wideband T shape wearable printed slot antenna -- 13.6. Wideband wearable notch antenna for wireless communication systems -- 13.7. Wearable tunable slot antennas for wireless communication systems -- 13.8. A wideband T shape tunable wearable printed slot antenna -- 13.9. Wearable active slot antennas for wireless communication systems -- 13.10. Wearable active T shape slot antennas for wireless communication systems -- 13.11. New fractal compact ultra-wideband, 1 GHz to 6 GHz, notch antenna -- 13.12. New compact ultra-wideband notch antenna 1.3 GHz to 3.9 GHz -- 13.13. New compact ultra-wideband notch antenna 5.8 GHz to 18 GHz -- 13.14. New fractal active compact ultra-wideband, 0.5 GHz to 3 GHz, notch antenna -- 13.15. New compact ultra-wideband active notch antenna 0.4 GHz to 3 GHz -- 13.16. Conclusions

14. Aperture antennas for wireless communication systems -- 14.1. The parabolic reflector antenna's configuration -- 14.2. Reflector directivity -- 14.3. Cassegrain reflector -- 14.4. Horn antennas -- 14.5. Antenna arrays for wireless communication systems -- 14.6. Integrated outdoor unit for mm wave communication systems -- 14.7. Solid state power amplifier, SSPA -- 14.8. Solid state high power amplifiers, SSPAs, for mm wave communication system -- 14.9. Integrated Ku band automatic tracking system -- 14.10. Conclusions

15. Compact circular patch wearable metamaterials antennas for healthcare, IOT, and 5G systems -- 15.1. Introduction -- 15.2. Circular metamaterial patch with CSRR -- 15.3. Active receiving compact circular patch antennas -- 15.4. Active transmitting wearable circular patch -- 15.5. Active receiving compact stacked circular patch antenna -- 15.6. Metamaterial wearable stacked circular patch antennas -- 15.7. Applications of wearable antennas for healthcare and IoT systems -- 15.8. Conclusions

16. Green electronic and communication technologies--going green -- 16.1. Introduction to green electronic technologies -- 16.2. Electronic and communication green technologies -- 16.3. Renewable green energy for electronic and RF systems -- 16.4. Recycling in the electronics and computing industry -- 16.5. Innovations and challenges in green technologies

17. Analysis and design of wearable communication, medical and IOT systems -- 17.1. Introduction -- 17.2. Commercial electromagnetic software -- 17.3. Advance design system, ADS -- 17.4. CST electromagnetic software -- 17.5. Microwave office, AWR -- 17.6. Evaluation of losses in wearable sensors and antennas -- 17.7. Computation of radiation loss in wearable antennas feed network -- 17.8. Conclusions

18. Measurements of wearable systems and antennas -- 18.1. Introduction -- 18.2. Representation of wearable systems by N ports model -- 18.3. Scattering matrix -- 18.4. S parameter measurements for RF devices -- 18.5. RF transmission measurements -- 18.6. Output power and linearity measurements -- 18.7. Power input protection measurements of RF devices -- 18.8. Non-harmonic spurious measurements of RF devices -- 18.9. Switching time measurements of RF devices -- 18.10. IP2 measurements -- 18.11. IP3 measurements -- 18.12. Noise figure measurements -- 18.13. Antennas' electrical performance measurements -- 18.14. Antenna range setup -- 18.15. Conclusions

19. Ethics in wearable healthcare and communication systems -- 19.1. Introduction to ethics theory and practice -- 19.2. The basics of ethics theory -- 19.3. Medical ethics -- 19.4. Ethical problems -- 19.5. Ethics in organizations and companies -- 19.6. Ethical dilemmas in science research and development -- 19.7. Ethical dilemmas for using computers and the internet -- 19.8. How to prevent and minimize ethical crimes in the digital media -- 19.9. Conclusions.

The main objective of this book is to present efficient wearable systems, compact sensors and antennas for communication and healthcare systems.

Electrical engineering, biomedical engineers, system engineers, IOT system engineers, sports wearable device engineers. Applicable for: upper-level undergraduates/graduates, industry professionals, and researchers.

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Dr. Albert Sabban received BSc and MSc degrees Magna Cum Laude in electrical and computer engineering from Tel Aviv University in 1976 and 1986, respectively. He received an MBA degree from Haifa University and a PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Colorado in 1991.

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